Teenager arrested, jailed for refusing TB treatment at hospital: Newstarget.com

Health officials in Lawrenceville, Ga., have arrested and jailed Francisco Santos, a teenager who tried to walk out of a hospital and go home after being diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB). Instead of allowing him to leave the hospital, health authorities arrested and jailed the teen, throwing him in into a 15 x 20 foot isolation chamber and not allowing him to leave until he submitted to chemical treatments pushed by doctors at the hospital. Francisco is being described as "...a threat to public safety" due to his tuberculosis.

Francisco's plight is the latest episode in a growing number of "gunpoint medicine" episodes where individuals are being arrested at gunpoint and thrown into jails or detainment centers until they submit to treatment with pharmaceuticals, chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.

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