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Aids-Infected Ex-Prisoner to Sue Prisons

South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - December 12, 2002


An application to compel Correctional Services to hand over certain safe sex policy documents to a former Pollsmoor inmate who is suing them for R1,1-million was withdrawn in the Cape High Court on Thursday, SABC radio news reported.

SABC said the application was withdrawn because the department had agreed to hand the documents over to the applicant.

The applicant, known only as PW, claimed he was infected with the HIV virus because the department's safe sex policy of the early 1990s denied prisoners access to condoms.

His case will go to trial on February.


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