National/Regional
Report says most prison AIDS cases in three states
WASHINGTON (AP) — About half the nation's
prisons are free of AIDS, and nearly 75 percent of all in
mates with the disease have been housed in three mid
Atlantic states, a new federally financed study released
Sunday concludes.
The report, the first of national scope on the in
cidence of the disease in prisons, says that 4 percent of
the nation’s correctional institutions have 72 percent of
all the inmate AIDS cases.
The study found 144 AIDS cases in all of the na
tion’s state and federal prisons, where the inmate
population is a half-million. Thirty-five cases were
found in 11 of 32 city and county systems surveyed, ac
cording to the report, sponsored by the National In
stitute of Justice in the Justice Department and the
American Correctional Association.
Almost all 179 current AIDS cases found by the
study in federal, state, county and city Jails were con
tracted from intravenous drug abuse before admission
to the Jail or prison, the study concluded.
On a cumulative basis, almost three-quarters of the
offenders who have had AIDS in state, county and city
jails nationwide are in facilities in New York. New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, the report concluded.
“You keep hearing that prisons are breeding
grounds for AIDS, but in fact, there are only a very
small number of jurisdictions with substantial numbers
of AIDS cases, and the vast majority of jurisdictions
have very few or no casus.’' the report’s author.
Theodore M Hammett of the research firm Abt
Associates Inc., said in an interview.
The 1985 AIDS rates in most corrections systems
where Inmates have the disease ranged from five to 50
{>er 100.000 population. Among the general popula
tion. the AIDS rate is 3.4 per 100.000
Three state prison systems have AIDS rates that are
in excess of 30 times that of the general population, the
study said. The report categorized the figures by region
and did not identify individual systems.
AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is
an affliction in which the body’s immune system
becomes unable to resist disease.
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An Acquaintance Rape Awareness Symposium
Tuesday, February 18
7:00 p.m. EMU Forum Room
"Defining Acquaitance Rape"
Helena See and Karen Kane of Rape
Crisis Network will discuss both marital
and date rape. Representatives from
Men against Rape will also speak.
Wednesday, February 19
7:00 p.m. EMU Forum Room
"Personal Perspectives on Rape"
Three short films - "The Date", "Just One
of the Boys", and "End of the Road" will
be shown.
The films will be followed by rape sur
vivors speaking out about their
experiences.
Thursday, February 20
6:30 p.m. 150 Geology
'Tight Back"
April Norman, Campus Security, and
Nadia Telsey, Rape Crisis Network, will
speak about rape prevention and self
defense.
8:00 p.m. EMU Courtyard to UO
Cemetery
-TAKE BACK THE NIGHT rally
starts with music, songs, and poetry.
Following the rally, Project Safe-run
dogs will lead the "Take Back the Night"
march.
All events are wheelchair accessible, childcare is provided and hearing impaired are accomodated.
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operating costs
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lottery money earmarked "for.
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with the initial payment ..ip,
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development money . for..bur
working capital.'' Kent-Aldrich,
a lottery commissioner said in
an Interview with the?
Statesman-journal newspaper
in. Salem "VVe don't have
anyplace else to get it."
lottery officials said they
have been making up each
quarterly shortfall the following
quarter., the net effect being to
continually roll over the initial
$1.4 million debt..
The lottery's budget director.
Steve Caputo. said the decision
to hold back money from the
quarterly payments was made
out of necessity.
; ‘‘We just .flatly said we're go
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the current quarterly allot
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The constitutional amend
merit that established the
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