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Man Jailed for Saying 'No' to TB Drugs

An Olympia, WA, man was jailed in mid-March 1997, for refusing to take his tuberculosis medicine. Kenneth Elkins, 44, was living homeless in Olympia after having been released from McNeil Island Corr. Ctr. in the summer of 1996.

In November, 1996, Elkins was diagnosed with infectious TB and the state ...

 

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