Nurse Viscum must have been angry at world because she snapped a refusal to call Dr. Smith so I could speak to him. I asked several times more. Each request was refused. I told Nurse Viscum if she continued to misuse her role as a medical gatekeeper, refusing to relay my serious medical problems to Dr. Smith, I would file an institutional grievance against her. She exploded in anger and ordered me from HCU under threats of having me walked to segregation and thrown in "hole". I left and filed grievance.

The next week I reported to HCU to receive my weekly injection of PEG Interferon. I discovered Nurse Viscum had refused to reorder my dosage of PEG Interferon. I was unable to receive my injection of PEG Interferon until Thursday, December 5, 2002, four days behind schedule. I asked to speak with temporary acting Medical Director, Dr. Jovita Anyanwu. Nurse Viscum said he refused to see me. I wanted to discuss any possible medical complications due to this delay in medication schedule and make sure that I was now on a Thursday weekly injection schedule to receive PEG Interferon. Nurse Viscum sarcastically replied, "yeah, you're on a Thursday schedule."

Four days later I was summoned to HCU Monday, December 9, 2002 and ordered to take another full strength injection of PEG Interferon. I refused at first, taking out "Medication Guidelines" enclosed with box that PEG-Interferon came in. It states that I was to NEVER, EVER take more than one single injection per week, and that it is supposed to be taken at same time and day each week, whenever possible. Nurse Viscum took "Medication Guidelines" and left ER, saying she was going to show them to Dr. Anyanwu. She came back in minutes, saying that Dr. Anyanwu said I was to take injection. It wouldn't hurt me and they wanted me back on a Monday injection schedule for their convenience.

Again I refused, saying I wanted to speak to Dr. Anyanwu in person. Nurse Viscum got on phone in front of me and called someone she said was Dr. Anyanwu. She hung up and said I either take injection as ordered, or my medical treatments would be terminated. Under this threat to stop my treatments, and against my better judgment, I submitted. I took early injection of PEG Interferon which overdosed me.

Big, big mistake. It hit me with force of a sledgehammer, putting me in a near coma for next week. It immediately began destroying my red blood cells at a rapid pace. I repeatedly requested to see a doctor over frightening effects this was having on me. They steadfastly refused to see me. I filed grievances, wrote letters, spoke to officials in person. I was ignored. No doctor or other ADDUS Healthcare staff would see me until Dr. Kevin Smith reluctantly saw me January 9, 2003. His first words were to confront me over naming him in a lawsuit I filed over first sabotage of my HCV treatments; under Kinslow v. Snyder, Jr., et al., No.01 466 DRH. In a very hostile manner, Dr. Smith refused to listen or treat lingering, painful drug reaction I had to Periactin he had prescribed for me. He then dismissed my crashing red blood cell levels and refused to treat with Procrit or Neuprogen to stabilize red/ white blood cells. He refused to prescribe vitamins or a medical diet recommended in order allowing me to take Rebetol medications. These improve absorption and efficiency of anti viral medication up to 70% ; a very significant improvement which could mean success or failure of treatments.

RE: Denial of essential medical care by State of Illinois, Illinois Department of Corrections and sabotage of Hepatitis C Virus medical treatment by state contracted medical care providers.

Hello, my name is Jimmy Kinslow, I am a forty - four year old man who made a terrible mistake when I was an impressionable teenager in 1978. Under influence of a thirty two year old biker, affiliated with Banditos Motorcycle Club in Southwest Texas, some innocent people lost their lives. I have never denied my participation in these terrible crimes, and have sought some method of atonement since beginning, without much measurable success, given my long imprisonment.

I was incarcerated in New Mexico when I was sent to Illinois in 1995. In summer of 2000 I became deathly ill with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) from knee surgery I had when I was sixteen. It was my good fortune Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) had a Dr. Joseph Smith, employed as Medical Director for Stateville Correction Center, a very kind and compassionate physician. On his authority, I started my HCV medical treatments with Interferon/Rebetol (Ribivarin), before IDOC officials knew what he was doing. Dr. Smith hospitalized me on July 6, 2000. I began treatments on July 7, 2000. I was placed under a medical hold and my treatments were expensive. I was extremely grateful for blessing. This disease was killing me.

Within four days, on July 10, 2000, I was summoned from my hospital bed to be interrogated by IDOC Deputy Director, George DeTella, concerning my treatments. This was followed two days later with an interrogation by Deputy Director District 1, Lamark Carter and Stateville C.C. Warden, Kenneth Briley, concerning my hospitalization for treatment.

These three IDOC officials approached Dr. Joseph Smith and Barbara Miller, Health Care Unit (HCU) Administrator and tried to convince them to stop my medical treatments by showing them my file. That I was a very bad person, totally undeserving of medical treatment and they should simply wash their hands of me. Dr. Smith and Ms. Miller refused this unethical request and refused to read proffered file. I remained inside HCU and my treatments continued.

The minute my HCV medical treatments began to work, clearly shown by blood tests, these three IDOC officials began a series of events which resulted in my transfer to another prison facility on other side of State. It was a surprise announcement on December 6, 2000, just five months into my year long HCV medical treatments. Since I was under a medical hold and in middle of treatments, Medical Director, Dr. Joseph Smith, called Warden and Agency Medical Director, Dr. Willard Elyea, to stop my transfer before HCV treatments were completed. In a stunning development, Dr. Smith was told to "shut up and sit down, it's an administrative decision" and he had nothing to say in matter. He was told this in front of me on December 6, 2000.

I was transferred to Menard Correction Center on December 7, 2000, just five months into my HCV medical treatments. The HCV treatments were working perfectly, as documented in my blood tests.

Within thirty five days of my transfer to Menard C.C., Dr. Adrian Feinerman, M.C.C. Medical Director, sabotaged my treatments by interruption of medication schedule and changing brands of medications in middle of treatments. This was done despite clear medical warnings to never do so. Dr. Feinerman canceled prescribed medical diet and canceled prescribed sleeping medications that counter Interferon induced insomnia. My previously successful HCV medical treatments began to rapidly reverse and fail, until they reached a point where Dr. Feinerman terminated my medical treatments, against my will and without my permission April 26, 2001, two months short of prescribed course of treatments.

I was left to rot in my prison cell after this, in extreme physical pain, with no medical treatment for later documented severe stomach/ intestinal infection with H. Pylori bacteria. Nor were there any treatments to ease documented side effects stemming from Hepatitis infection itself.