Better Hepatitis Treatment Costly for Prisons
Tattooing is ubiquitous behind bars, despite — or perhaps because of — the fact that it is banned.
“It’s just unbelievable how creative they can be,” said Michele Deitch, a prisons expert at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. “They can jerry-rig pens to become needles. They use the dyes in paper products.”
But the practice carries with it more than the risk of punishment — it can also spread hepatitis C.
The prison population is particularly prone to this viral disease, which is transmitted largely through infected blood and can lead to liver cirrhosis and ...
Comments (2)
Chris Eddleman
It's amazing that a prison administrator and a political policy maker on criminal justice see no advantage in a low cost aversion to the spread of Hep C , like giving a sterile needle ! Makes
Sense but to the people in power it shows how out of touch these people are with the long term benefits this would be to our communities.
Samdavis
Not to mention the fact that people leaving prison will transmit the disease to others through dirty needles.