By Steve Lambert The Manitoba government is planning to stop using jails to detain people who have communicable diseases that pose a risk to others. A bill now before the legislature would give the provincial cabinet the power to spell out specific sites for detention such as hospitals and other health-care facilities. Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara says it’s important to treat people as patients and not put them in jail. The Public Health Act currently allows someone to be detained at a wide variety of facilities if they fail to comply with a communicable disease order or if they are exposed to a virulent and highly communicable disease. The proposed change follows a CBC report last year about a woman from God’s Lake First Nation, a remote fly-in community, who…
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