Responding to HIV/AIDS in European prisons, 1980s–2000s
Abstract:The impact of HIV/ AIDS on prisons (and vice versa) has received minimal attention within histories of the epidemic. Yet, researchers agree that 'HIV hit prisons early and it hit them hard'. 1 Prisons were flagged as locations of concern very early on. Their residents, like other already-marginalised groups whose lives became entangled with HIV/ AIDS, became a source of anxiety among policy-makers and the media alike. Injecting drug use before and during incarceration, sex between men in prison, violence among… Show more
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