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Hospital CEO Dr. Kenneth Williams told The Associated Press that the government said the hospital isn't rural because it is less than an hour away from Memphis.
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“If you faced the person in the bed next to you, your knees would touch,” said Williams, who was incarcerated there for a few months and has since been released.
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