Litigation
Aug. 10, 2007
Denied Medication, AIDS Patient Dies in Custody
Victor Arellano died after officials in a San Pedro detention center refused to give him his AIDS medicine, fellow detainees say. Arellano's mother, Olga, holds a picture of her transgender son and said she "can only find the strength to talk about this because I want people to know what is going on inside that place."
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - The handful of prescription drugs Victor Arellano took each morning kept him alive.
But Arellano, in the throes of full-blown AIDS, was denied that medicine when immigration officials locked him up at the San Pedro detention center, other detainees said.
Two months later Arellano, 23...
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