Cascade County inmates positive for hepatitis C after being served blood-contaminated food, lawsuit contends

Cascade County inmates file lawsuit for being served blood-contaminated food

GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Twenty-seven inmates at the Cascade County Detention Center have sued the center’s food service provider and five of its employees for serving them food contaminated with human blood.

Cascade County inmates positive for hepatitis C after being served blood-contaminated food, lawsuit contends

At least three inmates at the Cascade County Detention Center tested positive for hepatitis C for the first time after they were served food contaminated with a kitchen worker’s blood in September, according to a lawsuit. The case, filed earlier this month by 27 inmates, claims that employees of the jail’s food service vendor told kitchen staff not to dispose of the contaminated food and that inmates could “scoop around” the blood. The lawsuit n…