Prisons

Prisons Inmates that have contracted AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) or have tested positive for HIV (Human Immune Virus) pose many problems and challenges for the correctional institution in the United States. Initially treating an inmate for this particular disease is very expensive to treat. These treatment costs falls upon the corrections system. Another aspect of inmates with AIDS or HIV present a safety concern for many involved in the corrections system. With the disease being so easily transmitted anyone who comes in contact with an infected inmate could be at risk. A final problem that an AIDS inmate creates is what to do with an inmate that is infected. The cost of treatment for anyone who has AIDS is very expensive. The health care that is currently provided to inmates is insufficient. Numerous inmates die from AIDS related deaths due to poor health care in the correctional system. Funding is given by National and State governments to combat this issue inside America’s prisons. “In New Jersey, the annual expense for treating one prisoner with HIV cocktail costs from $10,000 to $15,000, and the cost jumps to $70,000 for prisoners for prisoners with full-blown inmates, aids, disease, inmate, system, states, problem, prisons, prison, hiv, health, correctional, very, prisoners, prisoner, institution, inside, corrections, united, treatment, treating, skoler, segregation, rights, programs, prevent, officials, new, nation’s, jersey, issue, infected, immune, hiv-positive, funding