Re: Gay criminal dies after family claims he wasn't given HIV medication in jail

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On 26 Feb 2022, Mike Flannigan <mflan...@jam.rr.com> posted some
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> Don't stick things up your ass that don't belong there.

The family of a California man with HIV has filed a lawsuit claiming that
he wasn't given access to the necessary medication they say he needed to
treat his condition while in jail.

??Nicholas Overfield, 39, was arrested in February 2022 and died several
months later at a hospital in June after his family claimed he wasn't
given access to his prescribed antiretroviral medication to treat HIV
during the two months he was detained at El Dorado County Jail, according
to the complaint filed last week.

"My son shouldn't have died," said Lesley Overfield, Nicholas' mother, in
an interview with ABC News. "We're angry. We want accountability for
this."

During his February arrest for his failure to appear in court over a
burglary charge, Overfield "informed the arresting officers that he was
HIV positive and would need his prescribed antiretroviral medication
during his detention to ensure his HIV remained in check," according to a
complaint filed by his family.

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Overfield's health deteriorated while he was detained without access to
his medication, according to the complaint. He was first transferred to
Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe, California, and was later
transferred to a hospital in San Francisco for further treatment, the
complaint says. He was eventually placed into hospice care, where he died,
according to the complaint.

Lesley Overfield said her son lost his ability to speak coherently and
walk while in custody at the jail, and she said she pleaded with jail
employees for answers.

"When they brought him into the visiting area, they wheeled him in a
wheelchair," she said. "He was too weak to get up, so they had to help him
out. And feed him at the visitor's booths. He was so disoriented and
confused. He couldn't even figure out how to use the phone -- which you
don't dial it. You just pick it up and put it to your ear. He was so weak.
He couldn't do that."

The lawsuit claims Overfield was taken from the jail to Barton Memorial
Hospital on April 23, 2022. While being treated at that hospital, the
lawsuit alleges that one apparent medical record dated April 24, 2022,
says a nurse writes that she "spoke with a jail nurse from El Dorado
County Jail who reported that Nick 蘇as not had access to his HIV
medications since taken (sic) into custody in February.'"

ABC News has not seen the medical documents alleged in the complaint.

The cause of death on his official death certificate from the El Dorado
County Health and Human Services Agency, which was reviewed by ABC News,
is listed as encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and vasculitis
(inflammation of blood vessels) in connection with the varicella-zoster
virus. His other conditions -- including his yearslong diagnoses of HIV
and substance abuse -- were also listed under cause of death on the death
certificate. He began experiencing complications from varicella-zoster
infection two months before his death, according to the death certificate.

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