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Mississippi's Prison Healthcare Crisis: Denying Life-Saving Treatment to Thousands

Mississippi prisons have only treated 6% of diagnosed hepatitis C cases, allowing a treatable infection to escalate into life-threatening conditions for incarcerated individuals. This is a grotesque moral failure that denies human beings their constitutional right to healthcare while taxpayer dollars fund a system that deliberately withholds life-saving medication.