#medication-access

#medication-access

The new mandate restricts how quickly and broadly Correctional Health Services physicians can prescribe the medication. Priority will be given to people when they first enter the jail system - the largest in California - which houses roughly 13,000 people across nine main facilities. Everyone else who wants medication will be placed on a waitlist. "It's misleading because we just put people on this list and then they stay on the list," said a physician.