The risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) while in prison is quite significant for the 580,000 innmates in Brazil, including those still awaiting trial (40% of the total), who are often kept in the same conditions as those already convicted. The incidence of active TB in the prison population is about twenty times higher than in the overall population, and mass screening carried out in prisons of Southern and Southeastern regions of Brazil, where the characteristics of incarceration are similar to most prisons in the country, has shown that 5 to 10% of the inmates present an active TB
TB is, thus, a second sentence for many inmates of the Brazilian prison system. The high risk for TB is shared with guards, health professionals, visitors, and all those who, for some reason, attend the prisons. In addition, TB may also be disseminated in the communities where the inmates will live after being released.
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