The Housing Works
AIDS Issues Update Blog provides current and consistent useful information. This post by Julie Turkewitz is just one example of their work. Her posts are always well written, researched, and clearly focused. This one yesterday highlights a primary issue in the US that policy has avoided dealing with for years. Julie quotes statistics like "While an astounding 25 percent of the
HIV-positive
population passes through U.S. correctional facilities each year, just
one percent of prisons and jails can legally distribute condoms". At
Total Access Group we are happy to see action taken to make condoms available anywhere they have impact on reducing infection rates. Prisons look like an obvious to us. To get the full story
read the full article.
The following is an excerpt from and provides links to:
Posted by
Julie Turkewitz
, September 08, 2011
Incarcerated individuals may finally get access to a lifesaver: condoms.
A new
bill
would reverse the draconian policy of forbidding the distribution of
condoms in federal correctional facilities, putting the U.S. in line
with most European countries.
The legislation, called the Justice Act, was introduced by Rep.
Barbara Lee (D-CA) in August, and could help address a seemingly
intractable problem: the spread of
HIV during
and after incarceration. “We can no longer afford to ignore the reality
that sexually transmitted infections can be spread within our
correctional system,” said Lee.
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