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| Two inmates die in state prison in past week |
| By Gazette State Bureau |
| Published: 06/06/2005 |
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An inmate at Montana State Prison who once suffered from a hernia the size of a basketball has died. David Hill, 47, died early Thursday morning of an "extended illness," prison information shows. Hill didn't die behind bars, but at a civilian hospital in Deer Lodge, said Linda Moodry, a prison spokeswoman. Hill was taken to the hospital Monday. He was two years into a 15-year sentence for habitual drunken driving. Hill gathered statewide attention last summer after he was featured in a newspaper article about his enormous hernia - a hole in the wall of muscles holding in his intestines, bowels and other internal organs. In Hill's case, the hole was so large, it allowed a protrusion of intestines the size of a basketball to hang outside his abdominal wall. Hill alleged the prison refused to fix the hernia, which would have required surgery in an outside hospital. Prison doctors countered Hill's extensive medical problems, including end-stage liver disease, Hepatitis C and cirrhosis, made him unlikely to survive the surgery. Doctors said they were trying to make him healthy enough to withstand the fix. Hill eventually received the surgery. Hill is the second prison inmate to die in the past week. James Curry, 60, another inmate, died of an "extended illness" last Friday, prison information shows. |
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