***DISCLAIMER***
**Nothing to do with organized crime, past, living, or present criminals.**

When inmates serving either federal or state sentences in the long or short term enter jail with pre-existing medical conditions treated with prescription narcotics?

From what I've searched it seems like a very gray area with little to no legal recourse for families and estates of deceased inmates who were denied proper medical treatment or drugs.

From the mafia related deaths due to prison mistreatment it hardly seems like even for cases of cancer little is done often times.

What happens when an inmate suffers from things like severe depression or insomnia? Or possibly have a longstanding crippling injury which requires pain medication to manage, are these types of daily prescription necessities denied commonly to inmates?

I guess the general question is how is prescription medication managed by the BOP? Or is it simply not a concern of the state or country once an inmate is processed into custody?

Each state prison is different in federal
When you report you bring your empty prescription bottles . They replace them . Mostly likely with A cheap alternative . lets say you had to blood pressure pills they will let u to bring in a few day supply. They may restrict certain drugs as well. You need good documentation to get certain meds or keep them .