‘I had a purple elephant in my throat.’ Berkeley literature grad dies alone in Yuba County jail

Despite his pleas that he needed to be taken to a hospital or given medication for his mental illness, Hiscock, 34, received only minimal treatment at the jail, even after a judge declared he was not mentally competent to stand trial and needed to be sent to a state mental institution, court records say.

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