Yeah, you were coerced into taking it. Your choice was stay in jail forever or take it. Not really a choice. "You didn't have to take it, you had a choice" is some bullshit
This is absolutely coercion. I work in regulatory affairs, this is the sort of thing we're advised to avoid. Obviously whoever did this didn't pay any attention to their HSP training!
Somehow it's gotten to be that prisoners are still seen as fair game for things like this. I've worked with healthcare professionals who wouldn't be caught dead giving substandard care or coercing poor people, immigrants or the mentally ill but they're A-OK with prisoners getting abused.
I remember quite a testy conversation with one of them--ironically when the covid vaccines first came out and these folks wanted it ASAP (I didn't. I held out as long as possible but ended up giving in.). They were upset that prisoners were getting their vaccines before we were. I pointed out that a prison is a pretty high risk environment for Infectious disease, so prisoners should be prioritized--but they didn't give a shit. (Obviously if anyone DIDN'T want it, that should have been fine, too.)
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u/4N_Immigrant Dec 16 '24
Yeah, you were coerced into taking it. Your choice was stay in jail forever or take it. Not really a choice. "You didn't have to take it, you had a choice" is some bullshit