Illinois inmate bleeds to death as guards ignore him for weeks

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For days before he died from internal bleeding in a federal prison, Adam Montoya pleaded with guards to be taken to a doctor, pressing a panic button in his cell over and over to summon help that never came.

An autopsy concluded that the 36-year-old inmate suffered from no fewer than three serious illnesses — cancer, hepatitis and HIV. The cancer ultimately killed him, causing his spleen to burst. Montoya bled to death internally.

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"Damn you, bleeding hearts or spleens or whatever. Prisons are now a profit-making business. How are we supposed to make a profit and be responsible to our stock holders if we have to give medical care to our product, I mean inmates?"

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