NC prisons ordered to expand hep C testing
DURHAM — A federal judge has ordered North Carolina prisons to expand testing and treatment for hepatitis C, which kills more American than any other infectious disease.The injunction follows a class-action lawsuit filed by three inmates who say thousands of incarcerated people in North Carolina are going undiagnosed due to a lack of universal hepatitis C testing. Hundreds with the liver infection are developing health complications while the state denies them potentially life- […]
