Separate AIDS cell for inmates
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SHANGHAI has set up a separate cell for prisoners suffering from AIDS in Qingpu District as the number of infected prisoners soared in a decade.
The prison has had 389 AIDS/HIV positive inmates since 2005 who were all kept with other prisoners.
The separate cell created for them can hold 220 prisoners at a time.
“One of the key reasons to set up a separate section for these prisoners was because of the increase in their numbers over the years,” a prison official said yesterday. “There was just a dozen of them in 2005. Now there are 117.”
The official said they needed special care — both at the administrative level and medically — as well as psychological counseling.
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