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. ... _74.125.93.132/ search?q= cache:TF6xx8jimP 0J:www.wsmv. com/news/ 21597451/ detail .html+%22The+ Tennessee+ Bureau+of+ Investigation+ looked+into+ Castillo% 27s+deat h+%22&cd=1&hl= en&ct=clnk& gl=us&client= firefox-a_ (http://74.125. 93.132/search? q=cache:TF6xx8ji mP0J:www. wsmv.com/ news/21597451/ detail.html+"The+Tennessee +Bureau+of+Investig ation+looked+ into+Castillo' s+death+" &cd=1&hl= en&ct=clnk& g l=us&client= firefox-a)