When she was arrested on July 23, 2013, in Hawthorne, California,
Sierra Zurn told the cops that she suffered from ulcerative colitis and
had been prescribed Paxil for major depression. She says she brought up
her medical conditions again when she was booked at the El Segundo
police department. She mentioned it once more when she was transferred
to the Century Regional Detention Facility. No fewer than eight
different people, including a pharmacist, two nurses, and a nurse
practitioner, were made aware of this fact, according to her medical
records, which Zurn provided to
The Week. "DEPRESSION" was stamped on her jail bracelet.
But the jail did not even give her any toilet paper, she told
The Week, let alone her meds. In a grim irony, her very depression was cited as the reason she could not self-medicate.
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