The overcrowding in prisons has become a serious threat to public health. A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office “predicted that overcrowding would climb to more than 45% above the Bureau of Prison’s maximum capacity by 2018”. As a result, prisons are faced with limited funding to provide adequate healthcare and medical treatments to their prisoners. Consequently, prisons fail to meet health standards putting the life of prison staff, visitors, and inmates at risk for diseases that have evolved to resist antibiotics, making them hard to treat.
Prisons in the U.S. have become amplifiers to drug resistant diseases such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, venereal infections, and tuberculosis. Antibiotic resistant …show more content…
Smith’s very important point about rape and violence being conductors for antibiotic resistant bacteria. With the many years I have worked in a prison facility, I have observed many heterosexual men who refuse to recognize that they have been victims of sexaul assault. They fail to report assault because they have been psychologically traumatized. Their manhood has been taken from them and they can’t help but feel weak and unmasculine. Perpetrators also threaten to kill their victims if they don’t comply or if they snitch. This allow the perpetrators to continue their abuse without …show more content…
Crime was at its highest causing overcrowding in russian prisons. “The natural history of tb teaches us that the disease is most effectively propagated by crowding people into small spaces and then denying them access to adequate nutrition."120. In russian prisons, an outbreak of antibiotic resistant tuberculosis started to increase. Thus making it harder to treat and causing many deaths. The incarcerated people in Russia were not violent criminals, they were mostly there for petty crimes that they were forced to commit due to poverty. Unfortunately, they were exposed to multiple drug resistant Tuberculosis and once they were released to go back to their communities they couldn’t because they were scared of infecting their loved
Prisons in the U.S. have become amplifiers to drug resistant diseases such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, venereal infections, and tuberculosis. Antibiotic resistant …show more content…
Smith’s very important point about rape and violence being conductors for antibiotic resistant bacteria. With the many years I have worked in a prison facility, I have observed many heterosexual men who refuse to recognize that they have been victims of sexaul assault. They fail to report assault because they have been psychologically traumatized. Their manhood has been taken from them and they can’t help but feel weak and unmasculine. Perpetrators also threaten to kill their victims if they don’t comply or if they snitch. This allow the perpetrators to continue their abuse without …show more content…
Crime was at its highest causing overcrowding in russian prisons. “The natural history of tb teaches us that the disease is most effectively propagated by crowding people into small spaces and then denying them access to adequate nutrition."120. In russian prisons, an outbreak of antibiotic resistant tuberculosis started to increase. Thus making it harder to treat and causing many deaths. The incarcerated people in Russia were not violent criminals, they were mostly there for petty crimes that they were forced to commit due to poverty. Unfortunately, they were exposed to multiple drug resistant Tuberculosis and once they were released to go back to their communities they couldn’t because they were scared of infecting their loved