AIDS in Jail a Cold Reality
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By Cheryl Winkelman  Sex is taking place behind bars.   According to Isela Gonzales, an HIV counseling, testing and linkages coordinator with San Francisco County's Department of Public Health, transgendered inmates and gay men admitted to her they'd been sexually solicited.
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CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit....
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A prisoner says he needed medical help after hearing an alleged confession in the Michael Stone appeal.
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GARY, Ind. - The small windows on Gary City Jail cell doors are just the right size for a tray of food to slide in or a skinny inmate to squeeze out, police learned on Saturday.
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As Paris Hilton counted down her final hours in jail Monday, her reality stint behind bars was about to be replaced by the bizarre, almost fictional qualities that make up her life on the outside.
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Business & money: Former Telegraph owner says his faith is providing comfort - although he seems to acknowledge he may be destined for prison.
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A study reveals that environmental improvements such as cleaner cells could cut violence in UK jails.
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Drug-using prisoners may be given clean needles under a scheme being considered by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). The service has confirmed it is considering handing out kits to inmates as part of a harm-reduction programme.
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Stiff prison sentences handed down to three Russian men convicted of extorting money from overseas gambling sites may indicate that authorities there are changing their previously lenient outlook on such crimes.
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Viktor Parshutkin knows the occupational hazards of being a Russian defense lawyer: long hours, stress, and the risk of imprisonment in a jail so overcrowded the inmates have to sleep in shifts.
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 3--All over California, there are more inmates than spaces for them in county jails and state prisons.
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SALVO, North Carolina  - Marion Jones's prison sentence for lying about steroid use proves how effective cooperation between government and anti-doping agencies can be in the fight against drugs in sport, officials and coaches say.
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More than 900 inmates have contracted a fungal infection that can be lethal, and experts are asking why.
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LOS ANGELES  Overcrowding and staff shortages at Los Angeles County jails is forcing some incoming inmates with medical problems to sleep on floors while waiting to be transferred to cellblocks.
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Alan Parastayev's family says he was beaten and then refused urgent medical treatment in prison. But there is nothing they can do about it because the state holding him in jail does not officially exist.
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells.
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People who sell drugs near schools or use children to help them could get tougher  sentences under a new law.