§12271 Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Tuberculosis in Correctional Institutions

Summary

The Attorney General must work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the head of the National Institute of Corrections to make and share simple guidelines for preventing, finding, treating, and following up on tuberculosis in people held in jails, prisons, and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) holding centers. The Attorney General must also make sure federal prisons and INS holding centers follow those guidelines. He must give grants to state, tribal, and local correction agencies and public health agencies to help run TB programs in correctional facilities. The federal share of any program paid with these grants cannot be more than 50 percent. The law authorizes these yearly amounts for the program: $700,000 for fiscal year 1996; $1,000,000 for 1997; $1,000,000 for 1998; $1,100,000 for 1999; and $1,200,000 for 2000. “Indian tribe” means a recognized tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized Indian group or Alaska Native village eligible for federal Indian programs. “State” includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.