When someone leaves jail in King County and across the country, they typically have no supplies of their medications or any connection to a medical provider. But that’s starting to change. New efforts at the federal, state, and local level aim to provide a lifeline from inside the jail to next steps outside.
CaSandra Adams spent a decade cycling in and out of local jails for crimes related to her opioid addiction. Adams said 90% of the time, she left jail with no means and nowhere to go.
“Just completely to the streets, in a town I didn’t know,” she said, with “clothes inappropriate to the weather, no ride, no money, no phone, no ID, no nothing. Just having to survive, figure it out.”…