Should HIV positive prisoners be in general population?

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Judge orders end to HIV prison segregation in Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge ruled on Friday to end the segregation of prisoners with HIV in Alabama, agreeing that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

"It is evident that, while the ... segregation policy has been an unnecessary tool for preventing the transmission of HIV, it has been an effective one for humiliating and isolating prisoners living with the disease," U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson wrote in his ruling.

South Carolina now remains the only state segregating HIV inmates from the general population. Mississippi ceased a similar practice in March 2010.
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So let's say person1 goes on vacation to Alabama. person1 likes his weed so he brings a 1lb brick of weed with him on vacation. person1 gets pulled over and arrested on drug charges. person1 gets a 1 year prison sentence in general population. person1 is raped in prison by an HIV positive sex offender.

Should person1 be subjected to possible HIV infection just because he liked smoking weed? What if person1 didn't even have a drug charge? What if person1 just spoke badly about the POTUS and was arrested under NDAA?
 
I have a (former) friend who spent time in prison. He told me it was not a matter of if you will get raped in prison, it will happen at some point.
 
Seems to me that separation of inmates is costly and likely inadequate. How do we detect not only HIV but other STDs and disease infected inmates? Wouldn't this require constant, and costly, running of tests? And certainly this doesn't solve the problem that rape is just as undesirable as getting a disease from rape. The USA has now become the first nation in the world where more men are raped than women. It's because we the highest incarnation rate in the world. How about building a safer prison? One with better controls so rape is a rare if not non-existent happenstance?! Why do other nations have lower rates of prison rapes? Is there something we can learn from their systems?
 
  • never visit Alabama
  • make drugs legal
 
faethor said:
Seems to me that separation of inmates is costly and likely inadequate. How do we detect not only HIV but other STDs and disease infected inmates? Wouldn't this require constant, and costly, running of tests? And certainly this doesn't solve the problem that rape is just as undesirable as getting a disease from rape. The USA has now become the first nation in the world where more men are raped than women. It's because we the highest incarnation rate in the world. How about building a safer prison? One with better controls so rape is a rare if not non-existent happenstance?! Why do other nations have lower rates of prison rapes? Is there something we can learn from their systems?
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How about the US reduces its prison population and gets rid of private prisons.
 
Cecilia has a most excellent point too!

Red you narrowed in a problem. It was myoptic to not realize there are other external factors to consider. I considered a step back of the poor quality of prisions that fail to secure the safety of prisions and allow the cause to happen. Cecilia did even a farther step back and denote the failures in the system that even necessitate the need for prisions. I think both Cecilia and I consider what you brought up a problem. However, it's but a symptom of some much much larger issues in need of repair.
 
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