RESUMEN
OBJECTIVES: Knowing about the rate of tuberculous infection and disease in prison population and workers in Huelva prison, and the association of tuberculosis with the sociosanitary risk factors. EQUIPMENT AND METHODS: Descriptive research for a year in 141 male prisoners at the age of 20 to 52 years old, from the 1sT of February in 1994 to the 1sT in 1995. RESULTS: The prevalence on tuberculous infection is 46.4% (accumulative incidence); and tuberculous disease 3.5% (accumulative incidence 1.4%) on the prisoners and the prevalence on tuberculous infection on the prison officers is 18.8% (there wasn't incidence) and the was no disease. CONCLUSIONS: It's perceived a high rate of tuberculous disease on the prisoners at the expense of people with infection by HIV and drugs addicts by parenteral way. The socio-cultural variables affect the tuberculous infection and disease tuberculous.