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Former Mississippi DOC Chief Medical Officer Charged with Embezzlement

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2009 published in Prison Legal News November, 2009, page 44
Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution. Location: Mississippi.
Dr. Kentrell Liddell, 35, was arrested on May 21, 2009 and charged with 13 counts of embezzlement. She was taken into custody at her current job at the Madison County Medical Center in Canton, Mississippi, and booked into the Hinds County Jail.

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