Inmates: Man Begged For Care Before Death
Medical Records Show Man Given Tylenol
POSTED: 1:53 pm CST November 12, 2009
UPDATED: 1:57 pm CST November 12, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ebodio Castillo spent his final night gasping for
breath, crying in pain and begging for help but was ignored in the jail where
he was serving a five-day sentence for a driver's license violation, more
than two dozen fellow inmates say.The experience so rattled other inmates at
the Warren County Jail that 14 took the unusual step of signing a letter to
a local newspaper, and others wrote separate letters and gave interviews
to The Associated Press.An autopsy concluded Castillo, 51, died of
complications from bronchopneumonia the day before he was to be released. His family
says he was a healthy man before he began his short sentence for driving
on a suspended license, making his rapid decline that much more
shocking.Sheriff Jackie Matheny said his staff did nothing wrong and that Castillo
refused help. Inmates say the staff ignored an obviously sick man and state
investigators never interviewed them before completing a report that remains
closed to the public."I don't believe this man was just absolutely
neglected," Matheny said. "I feel like that if he would have shown signs of having
pneumonia, of being very ill, we would have done something."Castillo
entered jail on Thursday, June 25 and, according to a letter from fellow inmate
Rosendo Ramirez, by early Saturday morning he was cold and trembling. ...
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