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Exposure to AIDS Contaminated Sewage Banned
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1993, page 4
Prisoners at a Missouri county jail were involved in the large scale cleanup of raw sewage at the jail hospital. The sewage was contaminated with the AIDS virus from AIDS patients in the jail hospital. Prisoners were not provided with protective clothing during the cleanup nor informed of the risks …
Filed under:
Work,
Work Conditions/Safety,
HIV/AIDS,
Clothing,
Sewage,
Injunctions.
Location:
Missouri.
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