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Article: Prisoners With AIDS-Rights Advocacy Group Newsline.
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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Jonesboro, Georgia Sheila Magner's son James was imprisoned in 1987. James had AIDS. "There was absolutely nothing for prisoners with AIDS," Magner says.
"Prison officials were ignorant to the point that he had to tell them about it" she adds. During the 1980s, prison administrations often segregated prisoners with AIDS from the rest of the prison population and were less likely to grant infected prisoners parole--partly because most halfway houses were not equipped to meet the needs of people with AIDS.
James Magner began to inform other prisoners about HIV issues. In 1988, he started a newsletter called the Prisoners With AIDS-Rights Advocacy Group ...