Jail officer loses job, charged with crimes over Tylenol pills
WALWORTH COUNTY, Wis. – For the past 12 years, Cheyne Count has been a jail officer for Walworth County.
However, that long-term job suddenly ended because of four Tylenol tablets.
“I don’t have any more of this story. It was over Tylenol,” Count told WISN.
Count was fired last May after being caught giving Tylenol to a work-release inmate who had a broken tooth. Count says he asked for the inmate to be sent to an emergency room, but that request was denied.
“I was there to provide safety and wellness to the inmates- that’s my job. I thought that’s what I was doing,” he said.
He was asked to resign and then charged with two felonies for encouraging a probation violation and disorderly conduct. Those were eventually reduced to misdemeanors.
Court documents show that jail supervisors thought the inmate was using the broken tooth as an excuse to go the same emergency room as his mother, who was also an inmate at the time.
Count says he was just trying to help someone he thought was in pain. Now, he is hoping the charges against him will be dropped.
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A prison guard loses his job and is charged with a crime,for giving a man in pain 4 non narcotic legal pain pills? This leaves me speechless other than to ask,HAVE WE GONE TOTALLY INSANE in this country?this defies logic,it is so assnine that it’s almost an unbelievable story.The patients are running the asylum in America.So many stupid,foolish people,imposing stupid foolish rules,and they seem unable to understand how ignorant they appear.And they wonder why so few trust our system anymore?Common sense is dead in America.
COMMON SENSE LEFT,,5 YEARS AGO,,WHEN POLITICIANS STARTED PLAYING DOCTOR,,maryrw
Welcome to my state,,opiatephobia wisconsin,,,,,,sickening aint it,,,Wisconsin is literally back in the barbaric age,,the Neanderthal age,,,when it comes to medicine,,,u watch,,Doctors are going to start leaving the state by the 1000’s,,,idiots!!!!!!With 2 universities here solely for becoming doctors,ie,,University of Wisconsin,,and the Medical College of Milwaukee,,,,you politician are truly idiots,,It all started with young man from the Tomah V.A,,,who o.d. in a psych ward,,and thee staff never even tried cpr,,they thought he was sleeping,,,by the time they realize he was dead,,too late,,but his parents,,the opiatephobs at Tomah v.a. blamed opiates and his doctor,,,Thats how this started in my state,,,,,,sickening,,how many are being forced to suffer in agonizing physical pain for POLITICIANS,, who think they have the rite to force physical pain onto other humanbeings,,,,,This man should be given a medal for humane treatment towards another humanbeing,,,,not fired and unemployed for thee last year,,,