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Stripped Completely Naked For 24 Hours In Jail With No Privacy

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Location: Oklahoma

I am just wondering if this was okay for them to do. I was menstruating and they took my underwear with my pad in it, so i was bleeding on the floor. They didnt tell me why they stripped me at first. I thought they were going to give me new clean clothes, but i woke up a few hours later i was still naked. i finally got someone to answer me and tell me why i was naked, and it was because i was on suicide watch.

i didnt know why i was on suicide watch, because i had just gotten out of court shortly before and had slept the entire day before that. it was 24 hours before the psychiatrist arrived to take me off suicide watch. i was just naked bleeding on the floor and bed and myself. i was given a heavy blanket but nothing else. there was a big glass window facing the jail, the had a sheet/paper thing covering part of it but it kept sliding down so i did not feel like it helped cover me.

when the psychiatrist got there, she talked to me all of 2 minutes, if that. she told me it was because i hit my head and said i would hang myself when they were taking me in to the jail 36+ hours prior. then just cleared me.

really, i want to know is this okay? it may be, because i did hurt myself. it was just very confusing. i have level 2 autism and have never been arrested before this so i feel lost. thank you in advance for any input and i am sorry if this post is not appropriate here

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