"Groups Urge Cuomo to Free Prisoners Dying of AIDS"

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"Groups Urge Cuomo to Free Prisoners Dying of AIDS"

New York Times (12/23/88), P. B4
Lambert, Bruce

Abstract: Prisoner-advocate groups are urging New York Gov. Mario Cuomo to use his powers of clemency to free prisoners who are dying of AIDS during this holiday season. Although his predecessor, Hugh Carey, freed about 25 prisoners each Christmas season, Cuomo has freed only 10 prisoners in the past four years. Cuomo has released prisoners with other serious diseases early, the prisoner advocates say. A Cuomo spokesman said the governor treats prisoners with AIDS no differently from those with "any other major disabling disease." Wilfredo Saez, a bedridden person with AIDS serving time at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, died in prison this past year after waiting four months for a decision on his clemency appeal, one advocate says. The superindent and physician at Dannemora had approved his request to return to his family in the Bronx to die. New York City correctional officials have given early "compassionate release" to 46 patients with AIDS. About 650 prisoners are HIV-positive, and more than 300 have AIDS symptoms. In the past seven years, 565 prisoners have succumbed to the disease.
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