Tuberculosis in prisons: a growing global health concern

Incarceration and TB: the epidemic beyond prison walls

“…Persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in Latin America (LA) experience incidence rates of TB that are 26 times higher (95% CI 17.1 to 40.1) than those in the general population, and this disparity is the largest in the world 2. Over the last decade, the prison population in LA has more than doubled, which now has some of the highest incarceration rates in the world, has not been accompanied by concomitant improvements in physical or healthcare infrastructure, creating conditions for intensified TB transmission 3 4…”