Q: What type of lawyer do we contact for permanent injury that my 19yo son will have for the rest of his life?
Due to the detention centers failure to provide proper medical attention, during the 13 months that my son was Incarcerated, he is now permanently disabled. He repeatedly put in sick call slips and asked to be taken to the hospital. As his health declined and his symptoms worsened, the detention center refused to take him to the emergency room until almost 3 months after he first asked to be taken to the ER and 2 months after I spoke with a doctor at the facility, who assured me that my son would be taken for a CT scan, he collapsed from seizure #6 and stopped breathing, while in medical, after becoming upset because he was told that he was fine and that he was going back to his cell. Only then he w taken to the ER, where a CT scan revealed a tumor in his cerebellum , pushing on his brain stem. He was immediately transferred to UMMC where he was rushed in for surgery to remove the tumor, which was considered life threatening. One day later he was taken for a second major brain surgery.
A: There are attorneys who have expertise with medical malpractice in jails and prisons.
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