Prisons: The Role Of HIV/AIDS In Prison

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HIV is a serious blood borne transmitted disease that is spread through the sharing of needles, this is done by injecting drugs and tattooing (Booker et al., 2013). Despite the fact that drugs are illegal and that penalties are in place for their use, not to mention the significant resources that are spent by prison systems to control what comes in and out of the institution; illegal drugs do continue to show up within prisons and prisoners do in fact use them (Chu, Elliott, & Canadian HIV/AIDS network, 2009). Surveys show that federal prisoners report having had injected an illegal drug since arriving to the institution and in many cases, the people entering the prison have a history of using drugs and are active at the moment of their arrival

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