Italy Drops Law Freeing Inmates With HIV, AIDS
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ROME — An Italian court on Wednesday struck down a law that kept HIV-infected criminals out of jail and allowed a gang of bandits with AIDS to rob at least 10 banks this year.
The Constitutional Court ruled that judges could decide to keep a suspect or convicted felon with the disease in jail or in an isolation ward.
The ruling ends a ban on jailing criminals with AIDS or the virus that causes it.
The law was intended as a means to deal compassionately with such people in the prison system.
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