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Nearly Third of All Prison Deaths Due to AIDS
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1993, page 6
More than half the prison inmates nationwide who died from AIDS in 1991 were in New York and New Jersey, where widespread drug abuse has caused much of the disease's spread, a government study said. Two thirds of the prisoner deaths in New York and New Jersey prisons that year …
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