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Rowan County inmate David Ryan Wood begged for help. Medical staff wouldn’t see him, even after a weeklong headache, he wrote in a grievance on Aug. 1, 2021. If a nurse was available 24/7, why hadn’t he seen her? “Forwarded to nurse,” a staff note said. For days, he kept asking. “Duplicate,” a one-word response read. That was typical, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Wood’s behalf in September. Wood went to jail for an alleged probation violation. For almost two months, he asked correctional officers and medical staff at the Rowan County jail, about 45 miles from uptown Charlotte, to ad…