redstate.com By Jeff Charles
In a tragic story that raises questions about the conditions in America’s jails and prisons, an inmate perished because he was not provided access to his much-needed medication, according to an allegation in a new lawsuit. Nicholas Overfield, a 38-year-old inmate died at the El Dorado County (California) jail because he was denied treatment for HIV.
An inmate whose HIV-positive diagnosis devolved into AIDS died because the medical staff at the California jail where he was housed denied him lifesaving medication even though they had his prescription and were told he needed it to survive, a new federal wrongful death lawsuit alleges.
Nicholas Overfield, 38, couldn’t stand or speak and was in a wheelchair when his mother visited him at the El Dorado County Jail on April 22, 2022. He died months later after being transferred out of the jail and then to two hospitals and a hospice. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California on Tuesday, names El Dorado County and Wellpath Community Care, LLC, the jail’s health care contractor.
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