Ni Komang Erviani ,  THE JAKARTA POST ,  DENPASAR   |  Fri, 01/16/2009 4:45 PM  |  The Archipelago

The number of HIV-related deaths in Kerobokan State Penitentiary in Denpasar went up again last year.

As many as six inmates died of AIDS last year, up from five deaths in 2007 and three in 2006, a report from the prison HIV/AIDS task force revealed Thursday.

Agung Gde Hartawan, head of the task force said that most of the deaths occurred because the inmates were already sick when they went into prison. “We usually give them some level of health treatment inside the prison, but it’s more often that they came in with extremely deteriorated health conditions,” he said. [Read more →]