Looking further it appears that her arm was amputated because of a staff infection. My educated suspicion is that the staff infection was MRSA. As long as it is limited to the skin, MRSA is usually not life threatening but it can become so if it gets deeper into the flesh somehow.
Drug addicts sometimes are horribly disfigured from injecting through skin which has extensive MRSA colonies. Her amputation could actually be completely unrelated to her handcuffing.
It might be unrelated to the cuffing, but it is most certainly related to a week of medical neglect in custody.
Also, she has no lengthy criminal history, just the recent simple assault and disorderly conduct which doesn’t sound much like an IV junkie.
Satan’s little helper!
You’ve done well today.
” Her
amputation could actually be completely
unrelated to her handcuffing.”
They are still hosed if they denied medical care to a prisoner.