Lipscomb County Jail is in Lipscomb, Texas 79056 at 105 Oak St. The jail can be contacted at the phone number (806) 862-2611. The bed capacity at Lipscomb County Jail is 13. The Lipscomb County Sheriff has the duty of handling jail operations. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) is in charge of determining the standards to which jails in the Lone Star State must adhere. Enforcement is primarily handled via jail inspections and follow-up inspections for non-compliant jails.

The Right to Medical Care

Inmates in Texas jails have a right to receive necessary mental, dental, and medical health care. According to TCJS, which manages complaints against jails and follows up on most, has long reported that the majority of complaints are related to medical services.

A county jail in Texas came under public scrutiny during a period in which health care services to inmates was the subject of frequent complaints. One inmate at that jail had a brain abscess removed, and the problems he encountered included the following:

• Antibiotics were not distributed as prescribed.
• Gnats were in an unsanitary waiting room where he waited for cleaning of his oozing incision, and the insects swarmed his wound.
• In spite of complaints about excruciating headache pain, he was not given an appointment with a doctor.

Denial of health care services to inmates in county Texas jails amounts to a denial of civil rights.

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