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Criminal

Jan. 11, 2014

'HIV criminalization' is bad public policy

Except in the most extreme cases, the prevention of the transmission of communicable diseases is properly a function of our public health apparatus, not our criminal justice system. By Scott Schoettes


By Scott Schoettes


"Mr. Rhoades, I am going to send you to prison. I am going to give you the 25-year sentence.... Prison rarely provides rehabilitation, is very rarely good for anybody we send to prison. It is you're being sent there as a punishment."


These were the words with which an Iowa judge sentenced Nick Rhoades after he pled guilty to the "criminal transmission of HIV" in 2009. Rhoades pled guilty despite the fact this...

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