Hampton Roads Regional Jail inmate denied request for medical help two days before he died

Sarah Kleiner and K. Burnell Evans of the Richmond Times-Dispatch report: Another innate has died at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail after being denied medical help. Henry C. Stewart, 60, had requested emergency medical help several times before his death last month, but was told that corrections officers had determined his situation was not an emergency. He died two days later.

Stewart’s family has retained the same lawyer representing the family of Jamycheal Mitchell, a young schizophrenic man who was starved to death at the facility in August of 2015. Though the jail and its employees have been cleared of any wrongdoing by a state investigation, whisteblower employees have alleged that investigators never visited the jail itself, and evidence like video of guards abusing Mitchell have been destroyed by jail staff.

Henry Stewart’s death is the fourth to take place at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail this year.

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