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| S.C. to end segregation of HIV-positive prisoners |
| By charlestoncitypaper.com - Paul Bowers |
| Published: 08/06/2013 |
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The S.C. Department of Corrections announced Wednesday that it had discontinued a policy of segregating inmates who test positive for HIV. South Carolina is the 49th state to have a nonsegregation policy, with No. 50 Alabama still negotiating the terms of a new policy after the American Civil Liberties Union sued to overturn the rule. For the past 15 years, all inmates who have tested positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus upon entering the state prison system have been housed at two dedicated facilities in Columbia called Therapeutic Communities — or, as the ACLU calls them, "HIV ghettos." Read More. |
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