two charts showing decrease in number of people in prisons with HIV over time and prevalence rate in prisons is still triple that of the U.S.

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, HIV in Prisons series, 1991-2021 and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Monitoring selected national HIV prevention and care objectives by using HIV surveillance data — United States and 6 dependent areas, 2019. (Graph: Emily Widra, 2023)

This graph originally appeared in New data on HIV in prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic underscore links between HIV and incarceration.

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