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LAS CRUCES - Unpaid fines amounting to $242 landed Hector Garcia in the county jail for six days in August 2019. On day six, he was dead, a federal complaint alleges.
The lawsuit, brought by Garcia s son, says Doña Ana County Detention Center staff and employees of Corizon Health the contractor providing medical and behavioral services at the detention center denied Garcia higher-level care even after he began exhibiting symptoms of a perforated ulcer, a condition that requires emergency surgery.
The lack of care allegedly continued despite episodes of collapsing, vomiting blood and severe abdominal pain over several days.