King Salim Khalfani, Richmond managing director for Americans Resisting Minority and Ethnic Discrimination, commends the lawsuit seeking to overturn a state policy of withholding Hepatitis C medicine from inmates. Looking on, from left, are: Michael Donovan, Nexus Services president and CEO, whose company is funding the lawsuit; the Rev. Frank Jackson, managing director of ARMED’s Chicago office; and Mario Williams, lead attorney with Nexus Caridades Attorneys that is representing inmates in the suit.
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Death sentence?
Virginia inmate files federal class action lawsuit to make Hepatitis C treatment available to prisoners
Terry A. Riggleman went to prison as a convicted robber. But 11 years into his 20-year sentence, he is working to change an alleged state practice of withholding life-saving medicine from Virginia prison inmates like him who are afflicted with the liver-destroying viral infection known as Hepatitis C.
