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o h r tate official id condom
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faceted approach to AID pre­
vention.
Sin voluntary ting
in tate prisons' in 19 5,
than 7,000 inma have n
ted, with 135 howing posi­
tive for the AIDS viru , HIV.
There are 63 HIV-positiv inma­
tes in the system right now. Nine
have died of AIDS-related ill­
ince 1985.
AID ACTIVI T Tim Hil­
lard, a retired veteran television
broadcaster, and everal council
members said condorndistribu­
tion m logical and long over­
due.
But other council members,
including a clergyman, police
official and local AID preven­
tion workers, said it's not that
simple. No straw vo es were
taken Tue day, but several
poke in opposition and others
said t y would need more infer-
Some concerns
SAFETY. Jones said the
prisons are concerned about con­
doms being used to smuggle
drugs and other contraband, and
having the potential of· increas­
ing sexual assaults among inma­
tes. It's very hard for prisons to
distinguish between consentual
x and a rape situation, he said.
o EFFECTIVENE . Dr.
Robert Wood, director of the Se­
attle-King County AIDS Control
Program, said he needs more in­
formation on the impact of pro­
viding condoms.
"In making condoms avail­
able, will there be more trans­
mission (of the AIDS virus) or
1 ?" he said. "Might there be a
message that ex is more O.K
than it used to be? Is it possible
there might be more sex, but not
more use of condoms?"
MORALITY. The Rev. Joe
Fuiten of Cedar Park Church in
Bothell said authorizing condom
distribution would give the
tate's implied sanction to gay
x, Fuiten is a council member.
NEW PRIVILEGE.
Spokane Police Capt. David An­
derson said, "Boiling it down, it's
allowing prisoners to have sex,"
when that and other rights have
been stripped from them as part
of their punishment.
o DATA. A number of council
members complained about the
lack of solid numbers on the
prevalence of Hfv-positive in­
mates and the rate of transmis-
ion behind bars.
Several council members said
condoms are just a piece of the
answer to combatting AIDS be-
hind bars. Education and better
prevention efforts, health care,
research, te ting and other
strategies need to be considered
at the same time, they said.
But Hillard said the state
needs to tart omewhere.
"THE EPIDEMI t rted
with one person," he said. "It's
about risk-reduction."
The council ch irman, th
Rev Hobert Fitz rId, aid he'
not impati nt with he pace of
discu ions.
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