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Article: State is suing to test inmate for tuberculosis
- Article from:
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2007
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The Utah Department of Correction is suing a prison inmate for
the right to use force, if necessary, to test him for tuberculosis.
Civil charges were filed Thursday in 3rd District Court against
Robert Heaps, who has refused to be tested for the potentially
fatal, airborne disease.
Heaps was last tested in Dec. 2006.
The corrections department holds that failure to ...