Medical care at TYC falls short

[Joanne98]

Source: khou

The rashes sprang up in April 2004, followed by open sores that covered John Rodriguez's body.

By the next month, the 17-year-old inmate at the Texas Youth Commission's Coke County Juvenile Justice Center had spiking fevers and spent two weeks in the hospital under observation.

In June, after being transported 10 hours by van to a TYC facility closer to an urban medical center, John had swollen joints and debilitating chest pain. He sobbed to nurses that he wanted to go home.

By July 4, the San Antonio teenager was vomiting on himself and lying unresponsive on the prison infirmary floor. He was brain dead when paramedics got him to the hospital.



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1. So what happened toJohn Cavasos?

Sepsis? Lupus? Endocarditis? Can't tell from this article.

[SarahB]

2. Those were my thoughts too.

Perhaps they're going to do an autopsy. :shrug:

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3. Down below, points out that

one kid died of "virus" in 2004. Must have been John. Hunta?