America’s Nasty Habit Of Treating Prisons As Profit Centers Left This Georgia Man Blind In One Eye

When Eddie Robinson got sent back to jail last year because he couldn’t pay a fine required by his probation, he had plenty of worries about going back behind bars. Getting prescription eye drops four times a day for his glaucoma didn’t seem like it would be one of them. Jails have professional medical staff, after all, and he went in with clear doctor’s instructions. But within weeks, Robinson had gone totally blind in his right eye....
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/05/23/3780425/corizon-for-profit-prison-healthcare-georgia/