Word v. Croce.U.S. District Court CONTAGIOUS DISEASES Word v. Croce, 230 F.Supp.2d 504 (S.D.N.Y. 2002). An inmate sued state corrections officials alleging violation of her constitutional rights when she was left in segregated housing after she refused to submit to a tuberculosis test tuberculosis test Any of a number of tests used to detect past exposure to, or current infection by M tuberculosis. See Mantoux test, Tuberculin skin test. Tuberculosis test 1. for religious reasons. The district court granted summary judgment to the officials. The court held that the prison regulation that requires segregated housing of inmates who refuse to submit to a test for latent tuberculosis latent tuberculosis Infectious disease Infection with M tuberculosis that has been contained by the host's immune system and thus does not infect others Diagnosis Tuberculin skin test; release of IFN-γ in blood after PPD stimulation. See Tuberculosis. did not violate the First Amendment rights of the inmate, because the regulation was rationally related to a legitimate penological pe·nol·o·gy also poe·nol·o·gy n. The study, theory, and practice of prison management and criminal rehabilitation. [Latin poena, penalty (from Greek interest in retarding the spread of a deadly disease. (Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) |
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