Ohio inmate has leprosy, officials say; case is first ever found in state prison system

Cleveland.com ^ | 10/16/2014 | Jeremy Pelzer

[EBH]

For the first time in Ohio history, a prison inmate has been diagnosed with leprosy, state corrections officials said Thursday.

The inmate, whose name was not released, was diagnosed with the chronic bacterial infection on Tuesday at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, according to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

The infected prisoner is a native of Micronesia, a region of islands in the Pacific Ocean, and has served time at three other Ohio prisons since 2011, according to Stuart Hudson, the DRC's managing director of health care and fiscal operations.

He's now being treated at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Hudson said in an interview.

State officials believe that the inmate contracted leprosy while living in Micronesia, though he didn't show symptoms until recently, Hudson said. After infection, it can take up to 20 years for signs of the disease to appear, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Hudson said he's not concerned that the inmate will spread the disease to other prisoners or staff, ...

[arderkrag]

We all gon’ die! Enteroboleprositic plague gon’ kill us TILL WE DIE!

[ClearCase_guy]

End Times

[billorites]

Hopefully, he’ll be able to shake it off.

[EBH]

20 year quarantine time...whoa...

[arderkrag]

But until then his health will keep falling apart.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Those found with leprosy in the state are usually immigrants or migrants, the department stated.

Wow! There can't be but a couple or a dozen at the most undocumented immigrants incarcerated and a danger to the other inmates.

Wot?

These tables are not totally germane but they are from official sources about "immigrants" (ILLEGAL aliens most likely near 100%); included is a table showing a count of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities. Also there is information about how the feds are suppose to pay some of the costs suffered by locals keeping themselves safe from ILLEGAL alien criminals.

Department of Justice’s (DOJ) State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) dollars received by states, counties, etc. to cover part of the costs here

United States Government Accountability Office GAO Report to Congressional Requesters CRIMINAL ALIEN STATISTICS Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs March 2011 GAO-11-187

Criminal Alien Statistics Appendix III: SCAAP Criminal Alien Incarcerations in State Prisons and Local Jails (Corresponds to Fig. 4) This appendix provides additional details on figure 4: Number of SCAAP Criminal Alien Incarcerations in Each State. Table 8: Number of State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) Criminal Alien Incarcerations in Each State

State	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Alaska	77	87	-	93	107	101	87
Alabama	98	113	102	214	259	295	313
Arkansas	493	488	486	788	1,007	1,353	1,342
Arizona	10,941	11,985	12,200	13,268	14,613	18,357	17,488
California	85,210	91,614	89,381	93,048	99,189	102,121	102,795
Colorado	5,761	5,857	6,968	6,487	7,174	7,340	7,574
Connecticut	409	422	432	476	469	481	517
District of Columbia	48	107	33	96	168	251	432
Delaware	40	49	99	57	44	38	36
Florida	10,383	11,473	12,416	16,203	15,186	16,935	17,229
Georgia	2,319	2,889	3,075	3,449	4,361	6,062	7,371
Hawaii	101	171	179	174	198	253	286
Iowa	659	591	492	523	691	543	501
Idaho	1,238	1,214	1,315	1,250	1,262	1,134	1,271
Illinois	4,967	7,271	7,528	7,499	8,335	11,114	10,677
Indiana	553	953	1,138	1,410	1,534	1,684	1,793
Kansas	973	1,090	841	1,048	1,043	1,252	1,328
Kentucky	681	652	692	626	623	1,139	1,343
Louisiana	236	213	174	172	228	204	246
Massachusetts	1,897	2,509	2,789	2,778	2,639	2,731	2,523
Maryland	1,730	1,488	1,644	1,635	1,971	2,369	2,710
Maine	35	53	60	119	103	100	406
Michigan	1,723	1,523	1,736	1,831	1,829	1,850	1,700
Minnesota	1,594	1,418	1,049	1,472	1,866	2,193	2,140
Missouri	725	786	607	661	707	805	723
Mississippi	72	66	100	78	78	183	342
Montana	19	41	50	42	54	39	24
North Carolina	4,084	4,753	6,126	6,297	7,439	8,150	8,948
North Dakota	29	28	41	37	55	43	46
Nebraska	1,082	1,064	1,142	737	1,328	1,424	1,754
New Hampshire	167	164	116	106	103	104	185
New Jersey	5,455	5,085	6,006	6,305	8,434	9,693	9,971
New Mexico	1,732	2,220	2,507	2,067	2,021	2,675	2,112
Nevada	4,957	4,923	5,623	5,369	6,605	6,148	6,918
New York	16,130	14,536	14,286	12,962	12,138	13,192	11,096
Ohio	756	792	901	924	1,240	1,777	3,879
Oklahoma	1,751	1,429	1,397	1,993	2,471	4,128	1,666
Oregon	2,056	3,464	3,892	4,307	4,755	5,158	3,609
Pennsylvania	1,414	1,162	1,232	1,516	1,615	2,054	2,169
Rhode Island	663	400	352	402	429	359	421
South Carolina	925	1,117	1,472	1,721	2,649	2,051	3,750
South Dakota	292	267	317	352	486	547	93
Tennessee	764	1,148	1,196	1,409	1,630	2,499	1,993
Texas	32,127	31,047	27,980	30,689	33,221	36,065	37,021
Utah	2,338	2,574	2,316	2,395	2,648	2,018	3,438
Virginia	2,432	2,882	3,743	3,298	4,554	5,819	4,968
Vermont	20	24	25	17	20	28	13
Washington	5,668	5,375	4,891	5,164	6,050	6,384	5,976
Wisconsin	2,174	2,362	2,592	2,724	2,756	2,882	2,690
West Virginia	5	6	8	-	-	22	5
Wyoming	75	63	56	49	59	71	65
TOTAL	220,078	232,008	233,803	246,337	268,444	294,218	295,983

federal prison population Table 1 Prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities, December 31, 2000–2011

Year	Total	Federal*	state	Male	Female
2000	1,394,231	145,416	1,248,815	1,303,421	93,504
2001	1,404,032	156,993	1,247,039	1,311,053	92,979
2002	1,440,144	163,528	1,276,616	1,342,513	97,631
2003	1,468,601	173,059	1,295,542	1,367,755	100,846
2004	1,497,100	180,328	1,316,772	1,392,278	104,822
2005	1,525,910	187,618	1,338,292	1,418,392	107,518
2006	1,568,674	193,046	1,375,628	1,456,366	112,308
2007	1,596,835	199,618	1,397,217	1,482,524	114,311
2008	1,608,282	201,280	1,407,002	1,493,670	114,612
2009	1,615,487	208,118	1,407,369	1,502,002	113,485
2010	1,613,803	209,771	1,404,032	1,500,936	112,867
2011	1,598,780	216,362	1,382,418	1,487,393	111,387
			Percent change
Year	Total	Federal*	state	Male	Female
Average annual
2000–2010	1.3%	3.3%	1.1%	1.3%	1.7%
2010–2011	-0.9	3.1	-1.5	-0.9	-1.3

Note: Jurisdiction refers to the legal authority of state or federal correctional officials over a prisoner regardless of where the prisoner is held.

^*Includes inmates held in nonsecure privately operated community corrections facilities and juveniles held in contract facilities. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics Program, 2000–2011

federal prison population

Drug offenders still make up more than 46 percent of the federal prison system.

Immigrants are the third-highest category of offenders, at 11 percent.

more than 80 percent of immigration defendants convicted in federal court in 2010 received a prison sentence

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[Puppage]

Leprosy....All my skin is falling off of me... (Sung to the tune of The Beatles “Yesterday”)

[Chgogal]

Do we have to reopen Molokai?

[logic101.net]

native of Micronesia
served time in 3 other prisons

Why did we allow this pos into the country and why are we allowing him to stay? Yes, our immigration system is broken, but not in the way the Dims mean!

[tomkat]

marvelous .. can't have our pandemics being lonely now, can we ? !

[Cboldt]

LOL. This thread ought to be good for a string of leper jokes.

[Vendome]

Ship him off to the island. ..

No skin off my back...

[ought-six]

Ain’t multiculturalism grand?

[Maudeen]

Taking silver biotics and asap gel will get rid of the leprosy in days. Many missionary doctors use it on the field.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

"Hopefully, he’ll be able to shake it off."

Shake WHAT off?

[skeeter]

Alright, lets not lose our heads.

[Veto!]

kill us TILL WE DIE!

Nuh uh, ony gonna kill us a liddabit.

[tinyowl]

Alas, Obama hugs the Ebola nurses.

So shall the walk among the Lepers.

[Veggie Todd]

Is that covered by Obamacare?