Health order sending Manitoba woman to jail for tuberculosis treatment ‘wildly excessive’: lawyer – Atin Ito News
December 3 2024
A Manitoba woman with no criminal charges spent a month in jail after public health officials ordered her detained to treat her tuberculosis, even though she wasn’t infectious at the time.
Geraldine Mason was apprehended under Public Health Act, spent month in jail after missing TB medication.
Geraldine Mason, 36, was arrested under the Public Health Act on Oct. 27 and initially ordered to spend three months at the Winnipeg Remand Centre or Women’s Correctional Centre.
Mason, who has no criminal record, was taken to the remand centre, strip searched and forced to spend the night sleeping on a mattress on the floor.
