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HIV/AIDS in Prison and Jail
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1995, page 22
The Department of Justice has released its latest statistics on the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in prison and jail facilities for 1993. As of that year 21,538 out of the 880,101 prisoners in state and federal prisons, 2.4% of the total, were known to be infected with HIV. 3,765 prisoners, or ...
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