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Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
6. I am going to have to go with no
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 06:27 PM
Aug 2013

The government has an obligation to provide a minimum level of medal care to inmates.

For example if you have a bad tooth, they are not obligated to do all they can to save it and make it look nice. They do the minimum medically needed- pull it and if deemed neccesary give you dentures.

She will get counseling, not much else. If she was still a regular enlisted Soldier she wouldn't qualify for surgey anyway under the military system, so no way they will provide it to a miitary inmate.

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