Fungus destroyed inmate's brain while Kansas prison contractor did nothing, suit says

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Marques Davis was in the infirmary at Hutchinson Correctional Facility on Dec. 27, 2016, back with the same symptoms he’d been complaining of for months, including numbness and weakness in his legs.

But on that day there was something new.

“It feels like something is eating my brain,” Davis told Corizon Health employees who staff the prison infirmary.

According to a lawsuit filed in federal court Monday, something was infecting his brain: a fungus that slowly killed the 27-year-old over the next four months, as he pleaded for help while his vision blurred, his speech slurred and he became so disoriented that he drank his own urine.

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