23 Ex-Cons Share The Craziest Things They’ve Witnessed in Jail

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I was in an open bay dorm with a guy that was bit by a brown recluse spider somewhere in the head. He had his head all wrapped up in bandages. He kept going up to the officers station saying he was having a hard time breathing. They told him to go back to his rack or they would put him in confinement. He ended up dead by morning. Turns out he was allergic to what ever meds they gave him for the infection.

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A guy was sent to the prison hospital because the guards found out he had swallowed a balloon of heroin. They were basically just waiting for him to pass it. When he did, he immediately dug it out of his own sh*t and ate it again. So they waited for him to pass it yet again, watching him more carefully this time, but when he did he somehow fought and got to his sh*t again and ate it a third time.

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My dad’s incarcerated. One of the guys in there had cancer, went out to the hospital for chemo, came back with typical chemo sickness and supposed to be closely monitored. They stuck him in a cell and forgot about him. The other inmates were bringing him water because he couldn’t hold anything else down and sponge bathing him cause he couldn’t get off of his cot and he was covered in his own vomit, feces, and urine. His wife was calling the prison repeatedly asking about him because they were supposed to have informed her when he came back from chemo and tell her how he was doing. They told her for two weeks that he was still in the hospital and not their problem until other families got letters from those on the inside and relayed the message that he’d been back for weeks.

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There was young guy (19-20 years old) that was severely diabetic. The kid kept trying to tell them that they were giving him the wrong insulin. No one wants to listen to an inmate. Kid ends up dying in his dorm.

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One prisoner called into a local radio show. He said they once let a group of them watch a movie. The movie was some horror movie. He said, when the killer snuck up behind some girl and slit her throat, the guy next to him said “that’s not what it looks like.”

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.