Dr. Paul Farmer, a U.S. immunologist and co-founder of global Partners in Health, told me last night that it "makes him ill" to think of US prisoners, and he is sad that governments, agencies, human rights groups, and communities can't get together to overcome the obstacles facing health care professionals within the US prison system. He has helped Russia with overcoming a resistant strain of TB in its prisons; we should all become that community and fight to have quality health care in our prisons.