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Manitoba to no longer have jail as an option for people with communicable diseases - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca

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Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara says it’s important to treat people as patients and not put them in jail.

Bill would give cabinet power to spell out specific sites for detention such as hospitals and other health-care facilities.

The proposed change follows a CBC report last year about a woman who spent a month in custody after not consistently taking medication for tuberculosis.

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