Houston Chronicle, April 9, 2007 AUSTIN - The last thing Cynthia Cavazos remembers her son telling her from the Texas Youth Commission facility where he was locked up was not to worry about his poor health. Rodriguez was still in TYC custody when he died two months later of brain swelling and an infection left untreated, says an attorney for his mother. A federal lawsuit blames the TYC for Rodriguez's death, saying it violated its constitutional and legal duty to provide adequate medical care. The agency, under siege amid allegations of sexual and physical abuse, has been placed under conservatorship and is being purged of employees with criminal records. Last month, a top official for the University of Texas Medical Branch, which provides medical care to the TYC, said the agency's system was in such disarray that his institution wanted out of its contract. The annual turnover rate for nurses in the TYC is 32 percent, UTMB vice president Dr. Ben Raimer testified.