He is the co-director of the Bronx Transitions Clinic, which provides care for patients recently released from correctional facilities.
"There's no reason for any clear-thinking person to believe that this change in the law resulting in releases from correctional facilities around the state would not have an adverse impact on public safety......
Assuming an HIV prevalence of 1.7%, this adjustment would mean that 8,500 fewer HIV-infected persons (4.5% fewer than previously estimated) were released from correctional facilities in 2006.
Sentenced to 1 1/3 to 4 years, Mr. Morris won his release from Hudson Correctional Facility on his fourth attempt at parole, after a hearing on Monday ordered by a state judge.
It had been nine days since her release from York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only prison for women.
Ms. Falcone was released from the correctional system in 2009 and has not been arrested since.
Approximately eight million individuals are released from U.S correctional facilities each year and are at increased risk for HIV.
Society still has responsibility for the safety and health of all its members, and that includes those released from our correctional facilities.
After spending 25 years behind bars, Shawn Whirl — who says he was tortured by a Chicago police detective into confessing to a murder that he did not commit — was released from a correctional center in Galesburg, Illinois, on Thursday. .
By comparison, millions of women in the United States are likely to be affected by having an incarcerated partner or a partner who was recently released from a correctional facility.
