AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Your 12 On Your Side investigators have an update involving a private company that provides medical care at jails and prisons in as many as 16 states.

Southern Health Partners left Aiken County in 2023; now it’s pulling out of another county.

The company told Bamberg County leaders it is pulling out of the Bamberg County Detention Center.

That is the same company that was in charge of Alan Thibodeau’s treatment when he was there.

This is a photo of Thibodeau the night he was arrested.

And this was when he was admitted to the hospital.

He lost almost 80 pounds and essentially starved to death in the Bamberg County Detention Center.

Thibodeau wasn’t supposed to be in jail. He was initially arrested on burglary charges, but a judge ordered that he be moved

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