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This 10 page paper discusses HIV in the California prison system. It discusses the health of the prison population as compared to the general public, and the bill that was introduced to allow condom distribution in prison. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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and flu that is of concern, but the fact that HIV and AIDS are present in the prison populations, and that the rate of infection is higher than in the
general population, putting many people at risk. This paper surveys some of the recent literature on the subject of AIDS, HIV and health care in the California prison system. Discussion
Researching a subject like this is difficult, because its specific and broad at the same time. That is, the subject if HIV in California prisons, but there are many different
ways to approach it. That in turn means that often, scholarly sources are not particularly useful, because they are likely to return detailed studies on one population segment, while whats
needed is more general information. Therefore, the Internet is a good place to start. Contrary to popular belief, the Internet is not simply a pile of junk comprised of political
rants, juvenile pranks and pornography, it is a very valuable tool. However, the researcher has to check the source carefully to make sure it is solid (for instance, the San
Francisco Chronicle is online and has a health section). The literature review should reveal the political process, as well as some of the economic and historical issues surrounding the problem
of HIV in prison. Perhaps one place to start is to look at the overall problem. Critics have dubbed the U.S. "Incarceration nation"; the United States "has a higher percentage
of its citizens behind bars than any other country" (Shane, 2003). In an article that first appeared in The Baltimore Sun, Shane asks why in the "land of the free,"
there are over two million people behind bars and explains that the seeming contradiction in terms greatly puzzles foreign observers (Shane, 2003). When Andrew Coyle, a "leading authority on incarceration"
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