Two years after a young inmate at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville was left in a near-comatose state following a suicide attempt and a subsequent epinephrine injection, his mother is suing several Department of Corrections officials and healthcare contractors.

Two suits filed in the state courts of Fulton and Tattnall counties claim medical staffers determined that Nicholas Baldwin was delusional, needed emergency psychiatric care but returned him to his cell, where guards later found him hanging from a bedsheet.

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