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South Carolina Jail Pays Prisoners $80,000 for Failure to Prevent/Treat MRSA
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2009, page 52
$80,000 to South Carolina Jail Prisoners for Failure to Prevent and Treat MRSA
South Carolina’s Greenville County has agreed to pay $80,000 to settle 25 prisoners’ lawsuit that claims jail officials failed to take preventive measures to prevent the spread of an outbreak of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) at ...
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