AIDS On Parole: Dilemmas In Decision Making

Abstract

Parole practices and policies with respect to confidentiality, public responsibility, institutional accountability and managerial duty have been placed under new scrutiny as a result of the AIDS pandemic. This paper attempts to articulate some of questions that have arisen, focusing particularly on their moral dimensions, and seeks to provide responses that balance the plural responsibilities that parole officers and policy-makers have to releasees and their families, to other parole officers and to the public.