Abstract
HIV/AIDS and incarceration rank among the most critical problems that have impacted the ethnic minority communities in the United States over the last twenty-five years. New York State (NYS) in particular has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS, and its rates of incarceration of Blacks and Latinos are among the top three in the nation. The get-tough-on-crime policies imple- mented in the 1970s are the primary reason why poor Blacks and Latinos now make up the majority of people incarcerated in NYS. The sale, trafficking, and use of illegal drugs represents the single most important reason why these two groups enter prison at alarming rates; in addition, drugs (intravenous drug use) account for their high rates of HIV infection.
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