Lawsuit: Silverdale Detention Center staff assumed inmate was constipated addict, let him die of bleeding ulcer

The sister of a Chattanooga man who died in the custody of Silverdale Detention Center last year has filed a $4.5 million wrongful death lawsuit against Hamilton County and former Sheriff Jim Hammond.

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