The Center for HIV Law and Policy challenges barriers to the rights and health of people affected by HIV through legal advocacy, high-impact policy initiatives, and creation of cross-issue partnerships, networks, and resources. We support movement building that amplifies the power of individuals and communities to mobilize for change that is rooted in racial, gender, and economic justice.
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HIV and Mass Incarceration: Where Infectious Diseases and Social Justice Meet (NCMJ, 2016)
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admin - 7/31/2018 5:06pm
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Crowell v. Mass. Parole Bd., 74 N.E.3d 618 (Mass. 2017)
In an case challenging, in part, a parole denial on the basis that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts reversed the denial of parole for a prisoner with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and sen ...
admin - 3/20/2018 8:15pm
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HIV Criminalization in the United States: A Sourcebook on State and Federal HIV Criminal Law and Practice, The Center for HIV Law and Policy (updated May 2020)
Updated May 2020! A resource for lawyers and community advocates outlining punitive laws, policies, and cases affecting PLHIV in all 50 states. It may be used as an aid for attorneys of PLHIV prosecuted for “HIV exposure” or non-disclosure of HIV status, a ...
admin - 5/12/2020 9:30am
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The PJP Update- October 2016
News from the Positive Justice Project--read on for updates on state and federal advocacy efforts, including from state-by-state working groups, and updates on the criminal case of Orlando Batista and more! For more information about PJP or the PJP Working ...
admin - 8/15/2017 10:19am
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Unjust: How the Justice System Fails Transgender People, Center for American Progress and Movement Advancement Project (2016)
This report frames the overrepresentation of transgender people in the criminal legal system as a result of, and further cause of, discrimination, targeting, and marginalization. In exploring the overrepresentation of transgender people in the criminal le ...
admin - 8/13/2020 3:40pm
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Unjust: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People, Center for American Progress and Movement Advancement Project (2016)
This report examines the pervasive discrimination against LGBTQ people throughout the criminal legal system, from entry to exit. Stigma, discriminatory enforcement of laws, and harmful policing strategies and tactics all contribute to the overrepresentati ...
admin - 7/14/2016 10:48am
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Support for HIV Testing and HIV Criminalization Among Offenders Under Community Supervision, Brad Barber and Bronwen Lichtenstein, Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Volume 33, 253-273 (2015)
In a survey of 197 Alabama probationers and parolees to determine offenders' knowledge of HIV and Alabama’s HIV-specific criminal law, and their level of support for HIV testing and mandatory disclosure, the vast majority supported both testing and c ...
admin - 11/2/2015 1:11pm
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State v. Hammett, Crim. App. LEXIS 680 (Aug. 25, 2015)
TENNESSEE – The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals backed up the refusal of Sevier County Circuit Judge Rex Henry Ogle to allow Allen Anthony Hammett to withdraw his “best interest” guilty plea to charges of aggravated sexual battery, and violating the se ...
admin - 3/29/2016 11:51am
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Statement on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States: Updated to 2020, The Center for HIV Law and Policy (2015)
This statement addresses 1) broad public ignorance about HIV, STIs and identities associated with stigmatized diseases; 2) the criminalization of HIV; 3) HIV related discrimination in criminal justice and immigration detention facilities, and in the milita ...
admin - 1/28/2020 5:29pm
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A Roadmap for Change: Federal Policy Recommendations for Addressing the Criminalization of LGBT People and People with HIV, Recommendations for Federal Agencies, Catherine Hanssens et al. (2014)
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admin - 5/14/2020 4:56pm