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Jason Marz/Getty Images(SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.) -- The family of a California man with HIV has filed a lawsuit claiming that he wasn't given access to the

Jason Marz/Getty Images(SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.) -- The family of a California man with HIV has filed a lawsuit claiming that he wasnt given access to the necessary medication they say he needed to treat his condition while in jail. ​​Nicholas Overfield, 39, was arrested in February 2022 and died several months later at a hospital in June after his family claimed he wasnt given access to his prescribed antiretroviral medication to treat HIV during the two months he was detained at El Dorado...

Jason Marz/Getty Images(SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.) -- The family of a California man with HIV has filed a lawsuit claiming that he wasnt given access to the necessary medication they say he needed to treat his condition while in jail. ​​Nicholas Overfield, 39, was arrested in February 2022 and died several months later at a hospital in June after his family claimed he wasnt given access to his prescribed antiretroviral medication to treat HIV during the two months he was detained at El Dorado...

Jason Marz/Getty Images(SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.) -- The family of a California man with HIV has filed a lawsuit claiming that he wasnt given access to the necessary medication they say he needed to treat his condition while in jail. ​​Nicholas Overfield, 39, was arrested in February 2022 and died several months later at a hospital in June after his family claimed he wasnt given access to his prescribed antiretroviral medication to treat HIV during the two months he was detained at El Dorado...

A lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after being held in a Northern California jail alleges he contracted a preventable viral infection there

A lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after being held in a Northern California jail alleges he contracted a preventable viral infection there when its medical staff denied him critical HIV medication for two months.

A lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after being held in a Northern California jail alleges he contracted a preventable viral infection there when its medical staff denied him critical HIV medication for two months.

The family of a man who died after being held in a California jail alleges in a lawsuit that he contracted a preventable viral infection there when its medical staff denied him critical HIV medication for two months.

His mother, Lesley Overfield, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, handed the arresting officers her son's prescribed medication but he was never administered it, the filing

A lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after being held in a Northern California jail alleges he contracted a preventable viral infection there when its medical staff denied him critical HIV medication for two months.