This isn't from direct experience, but it was a story I was told when I was working a death row unit back in the day. There was a guy who had either a life sentence or a 'may as well be a life sentence' due to how many years it was, don't recall, not super important.
A couple of years after he got in he started faking having trouble walking, and then being entirely unable to walk. Anyone who knew him from when he arrived knew he was full of shit, but they pushed him around in a wheelchair, regardless, because it was faster and easier than arguing with him. But the prison is a revolving door for officers as much as it is for inmates and eventually everyone who knew the guy was capable of walking either quit or got transferred, and all that was left were the newer officers who only knew that he used a wheelchair. He didn't have any medical reasons on record for why he needed it, but he had officers vouching for him and he 'passed', or rather failed, at the physical ability tests to determine if he was capable of using his legs, and he ended up getting his papers saying he was disabled and it was necessary for him to have his own wheelchair.
Cut to a few years later and there isn't a single officer in the building who doesn't think that this inmate is anything other than a friendly, harmless cripple. One day he has a doctor's visit scheduled off the unit, asks the officers if he can take his blanket with him because he's cold, officers say sure, why not. They get him on the ambulance and down the road a few miles away when he pulled a gun out from under the blanket. I don't recall if he also had a cuff key on him or if he told the officer riding in the ambulance to free him, but he managed to get out of his restraints, had them stop the ambulance, and walked out. Thankfully the gun wasn't loaded, which was found out after the guy was brought back in, and no one got hurt, but that's not a bluff you want to call when it's pointing directly at you.
It's entirely possible Marnie can be trusted and believes Straxus is paralyzed, but Straxus still has power and influence. That doesn't get taken away just because you're in a hospital bed. It wouldn't take much to either bully or bribe a doctor to just say that Straxus couldn't be 'fixed', fish around for a doctor that's more 'agreeable', or ship him off to a doctor that's already in his pocket. And as you can see in the picture above, being front cuffed is one of the many 'benefits' of being in a wheelchair in prison. The 'We're nearing the end' description definitely doesn't fill me with hope for a happy ending.
Here's to hoping Jonesy's gonna be okay.
This isn't from direct experience, but it was a story I was told when I was working a death row unit
That entire story was a wild ride. It's also interesting that you bring up the buying out doctors, as it's something that's happened in recent political news (conflicting coroner results when the family hired a private coroner versus the police's coroner). It's not something I thought was possible and yet here we are. Medical results can be twisted by politics or money. That's truly scary.
That entire story was a wild ride. It's also interesting that you bring up the buying out doctors, a
God, yeah. You look at doctors and you think it's a high up, pristine position. They just want to help people, they're there to save lives. What could even corrupt them? And then you've got this shit going on.
God, yeah. You look at doctors and you think it's a high up, pristine position. They just want to he
