This guide is designed to raise the awareness of correctional administrators, medical and mental health staff, training coordinators, direct care staff, and policymakers to the rights and needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex individu ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 8/22/2020 2:54pm
This United States Department of Justice report sets forth data on the rates of HIV and HIV-related deaths in federal and state prisons across the country. The rate of HIV/AIDS among all state and federal prison inmates declined from 194 cases per 10,000 ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 10/7/2013 4:29pm
Every year people with HIV are the subject of felony criminal charges ranging from aggravated assault to intentional HIV transmission following police encounters in which defendants are accused of spitting at or biting police or corrections officers. This ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 7/12/2019 1:32pm
This report provides a review of the literature on the overlapping epidemics of mass incarceration and HIV/AIDS concentrated among poor communities of color, and the role that housing instability plays in exacerbating both. After exploring the interconnec ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 2/14/2020 3:13pm
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the issue of HIV in the United States correctional system from a human rights and social justice perspective. Covered topics include background information on HIV in the criminal justice system, structural ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/15/2017 12:04pm
A United States District Court judge held that the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) HIV segregation policy, which categorically segregates HIV-positive prisoners from the general prison population, was in violation of the Americans with Disabiliti ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 3/31/2016 9:57am
This report asserts that drug law enforcement practices prevent drug users from taking advantage of public health services and effectively increase their vulnerability to HIV risk. These law enforcement practices include creating fear of arrest, restricti ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
The following chart compares the sentencing schemes for representative HIV exposure, non-disclosure, and/or transmission laws in the United States with laws punishing drinking and driving, reckless endangerment of others, and vehicular homicide. In compar ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/28/2017 12:14pm
Teen SENSE Model Policy: Sexual Health Literacy for Youth in State Custody, designed for use by agencies and jurisdictions that provide services for youth in out-of-home care, outlines the programming and resources necessary to increase young people' ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 1/24/2021 11:35am
This is an order by the United States District Court – Eastern District of Wisconsin granting in part and denying in part two defendants' motion for summary judgment and granting in part and denying in part the third defendant's motion for summa ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 3/31/2016 10:06am