Tuberculosis at the Escambia County Jail

File it in the "scary but not surprising" folder:

I hear that a recent inmate at the Escambia County Jail had tuberculosis, and that the Sheriff's Department, despite knowing about it, failed to inform other inmates, visitors, public defenders, and maybe even some of its own personnel about the presence of the highly-communicable, deadly disease in a timely manner. Personnel from the Public Defender's office have been undergoing TB tests to be sure they haven't contracted anything.

Yeesh. Yet another reason to stay out of trouble...