Patchwork health care for reservation inmates raises concern

Albuquerque, N.M. • At a tribal jail in Washington state, an inmate with a broken leg banged on his cell door, screaming for pain medication, only to be denied.Hundreds of miles away, a diabetic man jailed on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming needed insulin, yet government records say authorities were unable to get any for him.And jail staff at other reservation lockups on several occasions mistakenly gave inmates the wrong medication.These episodes, and dozens of others noted in