After a bone break, he wants a second surgery
Hays County Jail administrators have been repeatedly accused of providing inadequate medical care to their inmates in recent years. In August of 2022, the, who feared he would lose his leg after delays in treatment for a wound suffered during his arrest. A month later, we examined theNow, a new case has surfaced which echoes these stories. Mark Suniga, 47, has been sitting in the Hays County Jail since August of 2022 after being arrested on a charge of indecency with a child.
Rodriguez said Suniga was taken to the hospital, where doctors placed two screws in the side of his foot in a multi-hour operation. He returned to jail several days later with a boot on the foot. He spent weeks trying not to place any weight on the foot but tripped again in late June and once more felt stabbing pain in his foot. Jail authorities sent him to get an X-ray, Rodriguez said, and it showed that the screws in his foot had loosened. The foot soon developed an abscess.
Hays County Sheriff Gary Cutler told us in an emailed statement that the department is aware of Rodriguez’s allegations but is unable to comment because of federal law that restricts the sharing of confidential medical information.
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