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U.S. Department of Justice Releases Report on HIV in Prisons
Loaded on July 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2010, page 28
In December 2009, the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released a report entitled HIV in Prisons, 2007-08. The report indicates that while the number of prisoners with HIV increased in some states and decreased in others, overall the number of HIV-positive prisoners in the U.S. ...
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