Inmates: Man Begged For Care Before Death

[cali]

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.

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"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."

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. They killed this guy sure as shit

Five days, and the Sheriff and his staff fucking killed the guy.

[mainer]

2. This sickens and infuriates me.

Those jail officials need to be sued, prosecuted, or punished in SOME WAY for letting this man suffer and die. The nurse is CLEARLY incompetent and should be fired.

[ThomCat]

10. Her license should be revoked for this kind of negligence.

She let a man die. If she really saw him and only gave him a Tylenol then she is incompetent and negligent. If she didn't see him at all then she is criminally negligent and her dishonesty shows that she is unprofessional too.

[barbtries]

3. gross neglect

heartless fuckers. i smell a lawsuit and i hope his family gets rich.

[Selatius]

4. The only thing they didn't do to the man was drag him out and lynch him old-school style.

They're a bunch of thugs, and the sheriff should be placed in the same cell Castillo died in.

[TexasObserver]

5. Recommend

[noiretextatique]

6. sheriff needs to be fired eom

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. Fuckin Piece Of Shit CO's.

Refused to see the nurse? What a crock of bullshit. When you're in jail you look for any reason to get out a little, even if it just means down the hall,. No way in hell he could be in his condition and refuse to see the nurse. The only way I'd see that even having the slightest bit of legitimacy is if he said he was too weak to walk there and needed her to come to him or something.

What an absolutely tragedy and waste. I hope they're all brought up on charges.

[EFerrari]

8. The local district attorney general, Lisa Zavogiannis, declined to bring any charges

against jail staff, writing to the TBI, "No crime has been committed. He died of pneumonia." She did not address whether Castillo was denied medical care.

[ThomCat]

9. This is obviously a case of them ignoring a man,

not thinking there was an issue until after he was dead, and now covering it up.

They are going to ignore the witnesses because they are all prisoners. They are going to cover this up because he was in jail and he was poor and Mexican.

That Sheriff Matheny is a lying piece of shit, blaming the dead man for supposedly not looking sick enough or supposedly refusing to ask for help. He really must be hoping that nobody will care what inmates have to say.

x(

It won't be nearly enough, but I hope that county gets sued for a hell of a lot of money and loses. That is the least that man's family deserves.

[Alameda]

11. Bronchopneumonia is not a quiet or subtle malady!

It had to be obvious......I hope his family sues big time and wins. All those responsible should be held accountable.....period!

[malaise]

13. Ditto n/t

[Mosby]

12. Someone needs to go to jail for this. nt

[d_r]

14. horrible

that was a painful, slow and horrible death for that man.

[Shell Beau]

15. Wow! This is disgusting and beyond immoral.

[madrchsod]

16. this is nothing out of the ordinary across america

inmates will tell you that if one draws the wrong guards one`s life could be over. in some prisons the guards are as bad as the prisoners

[gopiscrap]

17. All fucking jail officials are like this

it's because we have dehumanized inmates and are so worried about the bottom line, not to mention privatizing some jails and prisons which IMHO should never be done

[yurbud]

18. that's pretty gross negligence when inmates think you did something wrong

[JuniperLea]

19. Showed signs of having pneumonia?

I'm sure by this they mean had he stood there with his chest x-rays and a letter of diagnosis from his doctor.

I'm sick of humans.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Pneumonia sometimes comes on fast and requires immediate attention

My wife had it a few months ago and we were both surprised at how quickly it turned a healthy person into a seriously sick one.

I would be questioning the shit out of the "staff" who made the medical decision to deny him care. And I ain't buying the "he refused treatment" angle.