and a lot of homosexual activity takes place in prisons where the men are deprived of female companionship for extended periods of time. Fights also break out, and the exchange of blood and body fluids could occur. This could make the disease spread rapidly through the prison population and put many prisoners at risk. Therefore, segregation is seen as a way to protect the prisoners who do not have the disease.
Integrating the AIDS positive prisoners is also a problem for the guards because of the many fights that break out and the need to subdue prisoners at times. Guards could easily come in contact with blood and other body fluids when breaking up a fight between prisoners, and could become infected in this way. Prisoners have been know to spit at guards and the guards come in contact with prisoners' body fluids so there is risk to them from AIDS positive prisoners. In a mixed population, the guards may not know which prisoners are AIDS positive and which ones are not, so they cannot take adequate precautions.
By segregating the AIDS positive prisoners, the guards know to handle them differently and to take precautions to protect themselves when dealing with these prisoners, e.g. wearing gloves, avoiding body fluids. Since all the prisoners in the segregated unit are AIDS positive, the guards can treat them all alike, i.e. with the same precautions, because they know they are all AIDS positive. It is easy to set up a protocol for handling them, and minimize the r
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