Inmate with HIV harassed by officials

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal court in Arkansas allowed a prisoner with HIV to proceed with a number of claims against county jail personnel, including a policy and practice of crushing all medication given to inmates, including the HIV drug Biktarvy. The inmate may proceed on his crushed-medication deliberate-indifference claims, failure-to-protect claims against multiple guards for telling other inmates that a number of “shakedowns” and strip searches on their pod were his fault, retaliation claims against a captain for alleged harassment of the inmate’s wife, alleged First Amendment violations against guards for interfering with his mail and deliberate indifference claims against nurses for delaying delivery of his HIV medication.