ACLU: You're Infringing on Their Right to Spread TB!

MarcoEagle marconews.com ^ | December 1, 2003 | Tal Abbady

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"No longer a social hub of white convalescents, about one-third of the patients are from Latin America, Haiti or other parts of the Third World -- where TB claims 3 million lives yearly. Half suffer from AIDS, a disease that has "partnered up" with the TB bacterium that thrives in a weakened immune system, Ashkin said."

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"Jim Green of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a constitutional challenge to the state's TB statutes in the late 1980s. He said the state regularly detained patients and banished them to A.G. Holley without access to attorneys or other freedoms.

"There were dozens of people at A.G. Holley who were being locked down with fewer rights than prison inmates," Green said. He said patients had no visitation rights, no access to a library and were deprived of written correspondence. "It was a throwback to the 19th century."

In the complaint, Green argued that because TB detention is a "civil commitment" similar to the Baker Act -- a law that allows the psychiatric detainment of anyone considered to be a threat to himself or others -- it needed to include similar due process protections.

The state agreed, and the law was amended, Green said."

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ACLU membership representative Sharon Nichols & Jim Green, plaintiff in the Ten Commandments Case

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