Maryland abolishes death penalty.

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Second, some of their health strategies for infectious disease would not be acceptable within non-dictatorships. A lengthy stay at the sanitorium is still required, but since 1994, the rules on life long imprisonment of infectious disease carriers have been eased.

This is different from much of the rest of the world how?

Notifiable disease

Mary Mallon

During the scourge of the White Death, according to Wikipedia, in Britain "the infected poor were "encouraged" to enter sanatoria that resembled prisons".

And as I've mentioned previously, in our local community we have a facility (now being renovated as a park), where epileptics and other defectives were involuntarily incarcerated and sterilized. Though the site is closed now, there were still inmates when I served on a grand jury once upon a time.

I suspect most folks on the lounge would not be in favor of incarcerating epileptics (sorry if I am jumping to conclusions) but what of people like Mary Mallon?