
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, September 13, 1993                   TAG: 9309130097
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

INMATE DEATHS FROM AIDS ON THE UPSWING

New York and New Jersey led the nation in inmate deaths from AIDS in 1991 and prisoners in the Northeast had the highest rates of AIDS-virus infection, according to a government study released Sunday.

Two-thirds of the inmate deaths in New York, with 210 deaths, and in New Jersey, with 66, that year were from AIDS, said the study by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics.

The study found that 528 of the 1,863 inmate deaths in 1991 nationwide were due to AIDS.

That figure is more than double the 254 AIDS-caused deaths recorded in the nation's federal, state and local prisons and jails from November 1985 through September 1986, according to a 1987 Justice Department study.

Nationwide, 2.2 percent of 792,000 state and federal prisoners were infected with the AIDS virus or had the disease. - Associated Press

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