Health order sending Manitoba woman to jail for tuberculosis treatment 'wildly excessive': lawyer

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.

Health order sending Manitoba woman to jail for tuberculosis treatment 'wildly excessive': lawyer
A woman in a grey zip-up hoody sits on a bed in a hotel room.

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.