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A man held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola complained of abdominal pain for two years, according to a federal ruling in Lewis v. Cain. By the time he could no longer walk and was taken to a hospital, he had been diagnosed with advanced colon cancer, and he died shortly afterward. Experts testified that an earlier diagnosis could have prevented his death. Federal judge Shelly Dick ruled that the prison was deliberately indifferent to his medical needs.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness (neglect alleged). Federal judge Shelly Dick found that Angola staff were deliberately indifferent to his complaints of abdominal pain over two years, and experts testified an earlier diagnosis could have prevented the death from advanced colon cancer.
Reported by: federal judge Shelly Dick, in a ruling in Lewis v. Cain (court).