An estimated 17,000 California prisoners have hepatitis C. At prisons like the California Men’s Colony, new treatments have dramatically improved chances of survival. George Lavender/Marketplace
Dr. Jagpreet Chhatwal, assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, has studied the economics of treating hepatitis C in prisons and said that while the drugs are expensive, liver transplants and treatment for patients with hepatitis C in its later stages are also costly.
