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(The Jossey–Bass Health Series.) By Ronald L. Braithwaite, Theodore M. Hammett, and Robert M. Mayberry. 247 pp. San Francisco, Jossey–Bass, 1996. $32.95. ISBN 0-7879-0308-6.

Justice and injustice are the twin leitmotifs that run through discussions of American prisons and jails. AIDS has merely heightened the negative consequences of self-deceiving correctional policies and further reduced the distance between "them" and "us." Prisons and AIDS provides the following statistics: by the end of 1994, 5 million people were in jail, in prison, on probation, or on parole, and 1.5 million of them were incarcerated; blacks, who make up 12 percent of the overall population, account for 50.8 percent of inmates in state and federal prisons; and federal sentencing guidelines require that someone possessing 5 g of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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