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| Prisoners With HIV Can Now Work With Food |
| By michiganmessenger.com |
| Published: 08/23/2010 |
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Since July 19, the Michigan Department of Corrections no longer bars HIV-positive inmates from working in food service positions. HIV-positive prisoners had been barred from such jobs, considered some of the most desirable, as well as the highest paying, jobs in the prison system, for years by departmental policy. The policy first came to light in April of 2009. At the time, a spokesman for MDOC had this to say about the reason for the ban: “A prison holds about 1,000, 1,200 people and as those 1,000 prisoners go through for breakfast, lunch and dinner, prisoners are scooping that food onto their trays,” said MDOC spokesman Russ Marlan. “So if a prisoner was HIV-positive and sneezed onto a food item and then a prisoner ate that food item and that prisoner had a lesion in their mouth they could contract the disease.” That reasoning, officials from the Michigan Department of Civil Rights said, would violate state and federal laws. Read More. |
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