Contents

• HIV on the Inside
  
  
• Prison Health = Public Health: HIV Care in New York State Prisons
  
  
• DOH Oversight of Correctional Health Care
  
  
• Personal Perspective: The HIV Merry-Go-Round
  
  
• HIV Care in U.S. Prisons: The Potential and Challenge
  
  
• Personal Perspective: The Exception to the Rule
  
  
• Personal Perspective: Health Care for All?
  
  
• It Takes A Community: The Challenges of Discharge Planning
  
  
• Personal Perspective: If At First You Don't Succeed
  
  
• HIV in Prison: Resources
  
  
• ACRIA News - ACRIA Trials - Contributions - Masthead
  
  

As the contibutors to this issue of ACRIA Update make clear, the twin epidemics of HIV and HCV continue to seriously impact the health and well-being of prisoners across the U.S. For those who have never been incarcerated, it is all too easy to ignore the epidemic that is raging behind the bars of this country's prison system. But with a quarter of all people with HIV receiving their care while in prison, any attempt to address the HIV epidemic must look seriously at the quality of care, and the quality of life, of people living "on the inside."

Unlike any previous issue of ACRIA Update, we found when contacting writers that many felt constrained in their ability to speak out against problems in the prison system. Whether they feared losing funding or were reluctant to criticize their employers, more than one author we approached did not feel they could write a piece that told the unvarnished truth about HIV in prison.