AIDS Death Rate for Inmates Drops
From Times Wire Reports
The rate of prisoners dying of AIDS dropped by more than half from 1995 to 1997, the Justice Department said. The report on 1997 data found that 48 of every 100,000 prisoners died of AIDS, down from a all-time high of 100 per 100,000 two years earlier. The actual number of inmate deaths in 1997 caused by AIDS dropped to 538, down from 907 in 1996. Cases of HIV also fell: There were 23,548 HIV-infected inmates at the end of 1997, 333 fewer than in 1996.
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