These Sheriffs Release Sick Inmates to Avoid Paying Their Hospital Bills - Inmates suffering heart attacks, on the verge of diabetic comas and brutalized in jail beatings have been released so sheriffs wouldn’t have to pay for their medical care. Some were rearrested once they had recovered.

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