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23% of NY Prisoners Test Positive for TB

Loaded on Sept. 15, 1992 published in Prison Legal News September, 1992, page 6
Filed under: Medical, Tuberculosis, Statistics/Trends. Location: New York.
Twenty-three percent of New York's prisoners and six percent of the prison employees have tested positive for tuberculosis infection, according to the most thorough study to date.

Thomas A. Coughlin, the Commissioner of Correctional Services, released the data. The tests included nearly all prison personnel and prisoners. Of the 55,000 ...

 

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