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Prison Health Issues Affect Public
Loaded on June 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2005, page 42
by Michael Rigby
Filed under:
Medical,
HIV/AIDS,
Hepatitis,
Contagious Disease -- Misc..
Location:
United States of America.
Experts have long known that prisons are incubators for disease. Some diseases such as H.I.V. and hepatitis C are by some estimates ten times more common in prison than in the general population [PLN, June 2003, p.10]. Yet the health care of prisoners is typically of little ...
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