Miami-area executives for the embattled healthcare contractor at the Duval County jail donated thousands to the campaign of T.K. Waters just days before he was elected sheriff.
Records show the city signed a $98 million contract for healthcare at the jail with a corporation that had been convicted just weeks earlier of letting an inmate die by dehydration at a Wisconsin jail and falsifying records to conceal it.
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Records from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office confirm a Jacksonville man did not receive any doses of an essential medication while at the Duval County Jail on a misdemeanor charge in November. After spending a weekend in jail, Dexter Barry, 54, died a few days after being released.