Article: State is suing to test inmate for tuberculosis

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 ...

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