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$425,000 Settlement in Suit over South Carolina Jail's Failure to Treat Diabetic Prisoner
$425,000 Settlement in Suit over South Carolina Jail's Failure to Treat Diabetic Prisoner
by Matt Clarke
In June 2013, Sumter County, South Carolina and Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP), the contract provider of health care for prisoners at the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center (the jail), settled a lawsuit brought by ...
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