we'll turn next to debra rowe. >> thank you, ed. all right. good afternoon. during my incarceration at the reformatory in the late 1980s, i witnessed the disheartening maltreatment of who were ill and resided in my dorm. for example, the women who were sick were kept at the very end of the dorm. this was during the time when hiv and a.i.d.s. became prevalent in communities can and several of the women that i am referencing had hiv infections. during that period, i met my colleague here, jacqueline. you see, we along with a few other sisters were the voice for those women. we raised cane and forced correctional officers to get off of their behind and get them to the infirmary when needed. and we bathed and fed them ourselves. upon release, i was offered a job by the d.c. department of corrections health administration to educate my inmate and re-entry peers about hiv disease. while studying for my job, i read a report from the centers for disease control that stated that 16% of those entering d.c. jail had hiv infection. and i wondered, how did they know that?

we'll turn next to debra rowe. >> thank you, ed. all right. good afternoon. during my incarceration at the reformatory in the late 1980s, i witnessed the disheartening maltreatment of who were ill and resided in my dorm. for example, the women who were sick were kept at the very end of the dorm. this was during the time when hiv and a.i.d.s. became prevalent in communities can and several of the women that i am referencing had hiv infections. during that period, i met my colleague here, jacqueline. you see, we along with a few other sisters were the voice for those women. we raised cane and forced correctional officers to get off of their behind and get them to the infirmary when needed. and we bathed and fed them ourselves. upon release, i was offered a job by the d.c. department of corrections health administration to educate my inmate and re-entry peers about hiv disease. while studying for my job, i read a report from the centers for disease control that stated that 16% of those entering d.c. jail had hiv infection. and i wondered, how did they know that?