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Originally posted by Rudey
And I don't know what the statistic for rape in jail is but it's significant. They also released a study that said a lot of guys get AIDS in jail at a higher rate than the general public and when they're released they help spread it.
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...I don't mean to be awful, just saw this post and remembered an article that I read in the Washington Post last Thursday, 4/21, called "Few Men Found to Get HIV in Prison" if you want to search it on their website...but they said that:
"Although male prisoners have a relatively high rate of HIV infection, very few of them acquire the virus while behind bars, according to a federal study that is the largest and longest one to look at the issue." .. "About 90 percent of HIV-positive men in Georgia's prison system -- the nation's fifth largest -- were infected before they arrived, the study found. Over a 17-year period, 88 men became infected in prison by the virus that causes AIDS, chiefly through same-sex intercourse. Georgia prisons currently house about 45,000 men."
This article also addressed the rape issue, saying that 3/4 of all sexual encounters were consensual.
Hope I'm not butting in, just thought I'd share this, since I remembered the article, and pulled it back up after reading this.