$1.7 million verdict for inmate's untreated cancer { Illegal Alien }

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/11/10 | Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

[SmithL]

LOS ANGELES -- A jury has hit the state with $1.73 million in damages in a suit by the family of an illegal immigrant who died of penile cancer that went untreated during more than a year in state and federal custody.

The Los Angeles Superior Court jury found state prison doctors partly to blame Wednesday for the death of Francisco Castaneda in February 2007. A separate suit against the federal government is tentatively scheduled for trial in April, the family's lawyers said Thursday.

[Lurking Libertarian]

I don’t think it’s right that Mexico encourages it’s citizens to violate the immigration laws of my country and then compel me to pay for it.

This convict wasn't Mexican.

[jmacusa]

My mistake then. I’m not against medical care for a convict but my earlier contention in re Mexico as well as the rest of Latin America’s policy of exporting its poor to my country as a kind of human export still stands.