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![Tuberculosis & prisons](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/6/1995Call Number: PM 346AFormat: Cass AProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Medical Care In Prison
Juliet Trainer, from Rx Justice, speaks about the TB epidemic occurring in prisons. Mass imprisonment spreads the disease. Infectious cases are not handled well inside; Department of Health cut back on Health Delivery Systems on March 1, 1995, even though prisons are the only place in the US where healthcare is constitutionally mandated. The health of people on the outside depends on people on the inside receiving care, especially with TB.
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