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New Jersey Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak Kept Quiet in State Prisons
Loaded on July 1, 2021
by Akela Lacy
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2021, page 38
Filed under:
Contagious Disease -- Misc..
Location:
New Jersey.
After one person died and another spent a month in a coma, state officials found Legionella bacteria in the water at two New Jersey prisons.
by Akela Lacy, The Intercept
After Jamil Robinson drank the water from the infirmary at East Jersey State Prison, he became so violently ill that prison officials ...
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