Lawsuit: Prison did nothing as fungus ruined inmate's brain

 

October 20, 2017



KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas prison inmate died in April after a brain fungus gave him a form of meningitis that left him weak and so disoriented that he drank his own urine while prison health care staff ignored his pleas for help, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of his mother and daughter.

Marques Davis complained for months about symptoms at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility, his attorney, Leland Dempsey, said in the lawsuit filed this week in federal court, The Kansas City Star reported .

"It feels like something is eating my brain," Davis told Corizon Health employees who st...



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