The worst scenario is in El Salvador, where the study estimated that 44% of the country’s tuberculosis cases in 2019 occurred in its prisons.

History has shown that presence of widespread tuberculosis can make a prison camp a death camp. If half of a country’s tuberculosis cases happen in prisons, there is reason to suspect this is happening.

The rest of society will pay too, when strains resistant to antibiotics will spread outside via prison personnel.