CDR: Re: why should it be trusted?

Steve Furlong sfurlong at acmenet.net
Wed Oct 18 13:39:55 PDT 2000


> 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.

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