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Go to zReportage.com. Alabama's prison system is widely recognized for its systemic problems and deplorable conditions. Life is hell for Alabama inmates diagnosed with HIV or AIDS, as spending per prisoner is ranked 50th in the nation and last in terms of spending on medical care. Their days are lived out in Limestone Prison's drafty corrugated-metal dormitory, where they're quarantined from other inmates and prison activities. HIV/AIDS prisoners line up outside in the cold three times a day to receive their medications. The first ''pill call'' occurs at 3 a.m. If one is too sick to get up and stand in line, they miss their meds.
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Mar. 15, 2003 - Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. - Alabama prison HIV inmates line up for morning 'Pill call' at the Limestone Correctional Facility.
© Robin Rayne/ZUMA Wire
Mar. 15, 2003 - Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. - An HIV infected inmate's legs covered with scars from boils and rashes.
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Mar. 15, 2003 - Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. - A inmate at Limestone prison shows scar from one of scores of boils on his body. The boils are common in the HIV unit of the prison.
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Mar. 15, 2003 - Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. - Prisoner ERIC STEVENS in wheelchair that his inmate friends had to 'steal' for him to get around.
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Mar. 15, 2003 - Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. - Dr. STEVE TABET examines skin disease on a HIV inmate's scalp.
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Mar. 15, 2003 - Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. - An HIV inmate at Limestone Prison sits beneath memorial listing names of all inmates who died of AIDS from that unit.
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Mar. 15, 2003 - Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. - Inmate LOUIS POWE shows visiting doctor mysterious boils on his neck that are similar to those found on other inmates throught the AIDS unit.
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Mar. 15, 2003 - Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. - Inmates pass the time on bunkbeds in the overcrowded HIV unit. The death rate from AIDS at Limestone is more than twice the national average in prisons and that efforts to control infectious and communicable diseases are not adequately monitored or reported.
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Mar. 15, 2003 - Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. - Inmate JAMES PHILLIPS, 55, serving life sentence at Limestone Prison, waits for medications at 'pill call' outside AIDS dormitory.
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Robin Rayne

ROBIN RAYNE is an Atlanta based, internationally published magazine and newspaper photojournalist and documentary film producer, specializing in developmental disability issues, human rights and social justice concerns. Spanning a 35 year national magazine career, his work has appeared in Newsweek, Time, Business Week, Forbes, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, DOUBLEtruck Magazine, Paris Match, zReportage.com and Der Spiegel, among dozens more. Robin's stories and projects have been syndicated globally by ZUMA Press since the agency's beginning in 1993. Robin and his wife Kyla live in Canton, Georgia with their trusty dog Seamus a Wheaten terrier.:3


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