Medical contract for county prisoners, detainees extended again
The County Commission took extended the current contract for medical care to prisoners at the Shelby County Jail (above), County Corrections Center and Juvenile Court detention. (Daily Memphian file)
Short-term extensions to the Wellpath contract have been a constant for the current commission since the group began their current term in September of 2018.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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