Reading Room Document

Justice Department Study Concerning AIDS

The OLC advised the attorney general's assistant that the OLC had convened a meeting with other Justice Department components and concluded that the Office of Justice Programs should maintain responsibility for a study of the appropriateness of mandated prison sentences for those previously convicted of intravenous drug use or sex offences who subsequently knowingly placed others at risk of contracting HIV. The OLC also informed the attorney general's assistant that the Office of Legislative Affairs prepared a memorandum advising the attorney general of the statutory directives contained in the Health Omibus Programs Extension Act of 1988.

March 7, 1989