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More allegations of improper inmate care at Hampton Roads Regional Jail as Gov. McAuliffe calls for
More allegations of improper inmate care at Hampton Roads Regional Jail as Gov. McAuliffe calls for reformPORTSMOUTH -- With two controversial deaths in the span of a year at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail, Gov. Terry McAuliffe and other state officials said Thursday they want better oversight of regional jails. This came as new allegations surfaced of inmates not getting proper medical care at the jail.
The Pilot reported Wednesday that Henry Stewart died at the jail in early August after filing a number of emergency grievances asking for medical help. His last grievance was filed just two days before he died.
Now the president of the Portsmouth chapter of the NAACP, James Boyd, says Stewart’s cellmate, Carlton Dillard, has had his cancer medication mixed up with another inmate’s medicine and is not getting the chemotherapy he needs.
“It looks like the same path Jamycheal took and that Mr. Stewart took. I’m literally in fear for his life,” said Boyd, referencing Jamycheal Mitchell, an inmate who died last year at the regional jail.
Read more: http://pilotonline.com/news/government/virginia/more-allegations-of-improper-inmate-care-at-hampton-roads-regional/article_45bb1f56-de74-5f2d-a741-d4d53f59ca94.html
