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(Sept. 8 ) -- In prison, sex among inmates is against the rules. But in one San Francisco county jail, authorities have installed condom dispensers to help curb the rate of sexually transmitted diseases among the prisoner population.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the prison has been handing out free condoms to inmates at the San Bruno jail since 1989 but has installed 16 new dispensers throughout the facility this week.
"It may be controversial," Sheriff Michael Hennessey told the Chronicle, "but I think the larger health education message is important."
The debate about whether to distribute condoms to inmates in an effort to prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has lasted for years, and prisons in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Vermont and Mississippi have all given condoms to those held behind bars.
In Canada, condoms have been available to inmates since 1992, and the vast majority of prison systems in Europe also offer them to inmates.
"Fighting the spread of HIV is more important than upholding so-called morality when the activity is occurring [even in the absence of condoms]," Ralf Jurgens, the director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, told HEPP News in 2002.
Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle.
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