At 07:47 AM 10/18/00 -0400, William H. Geiger III wrote:
In <a04310112b612a9fd890a@[207.111.241.32]>, on 10/17/00 Actually it is rather common practice for various jails/prisons to take blood samples from everyone who stays long enough to be "processed" (by processed I mean someone who is staying more than a couple of hours waiting for bail). This is done for health reasons (aids, hepatitis, name your disease here, testing), because of this the samples are taken from everyone regardless of the crime accused of or convicted.
Data point: My mom is a deputy working as a county jail guard in upstate New York. New inmates are kept in isolation for a few days. They get a TB tine test as soon as the nurse gets to them, usually about a day, then stay in isolation for three more days until the test is done. They also have a medical history screen, but that's just paperwork. Blood is not drawn as part of in-processing. Female inmates also get a pregnancy test, but that's pure butt-covering; some NY county recently had legal trouble because a preggo wasn't identified; details unknown to me. -- Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel 518-374-4720 sfurlong@acmenet.net