{"id":5412,"date":"2014-08-18T13:22:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2014-08-18T13:22:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:22:37","slug":"alabama-prisons-are-facing-a-record-breaking-tuberculosis-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2014\/08\/alabama-prisons-are-facing-a-record-breaking-tuberculosis-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Prisons Are Facing A Record-Breaking Tuberculosis Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2014\/08\/18\/3472389\/alabama-prison-tb-outbreak\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/prison-hiv-segregation-638x376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very serious outbreak,\u201d Pam Barrett, director of the tuberculosis control, told the Associated Press. \u201cWe think we\u2019re at the end of it. The Department of Corrections is a hotbed of TB because of the living arrangements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Center filed a lawsuit against Alabama\u2019s DOC on behalf of 40 inmates after one had his foot amputated upon contracting gangrene and another succumbed to prostate cancer, despite tests that identified \u201crising cancer markers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Dunn, an inmate with bipolar disorder, also allegedly suffered more than a dozen stab wounds and slit his wrists on a couple occasions. During a press conference, SPLC\u2019s Maria Morris touched on the prison system\u2019s failure to provide Dunn with adequate mental health care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results that we found are shameful,\u201d Morris told NY Daily News. \u201cPeople are suffering and even dying because their obvious medical and mental health care needs are not being met. [Dunn] begged for mental health care. He wasn\u2019t provided with mental health care. He was provided with razor blades in order to shave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2014\/08\/18\/3472389\/alabama-prison-tb-outbreak\/\">Alabama Prisons Are Facing A Record-Breaking Tuberculosis Outbreak | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is a very serious outbreak,\u201d Pam Barrett, director of the tuberculosis control, told the Associated Press. \u201cWe think we\u2019re at the end of it. The Department of Corrections is a hotbed of TB because of the living arrangements.\u201d In June, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Center filed a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[373,57,1288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5419,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions\/5419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}