If you can't or won't fight, you may have to settle for what you get. When it comes to prisoners with HIV, the deck is especially stacked against them. One way they do this is by controlling medical decisions made by prison physicians. What comes first is the profit. And what comes second is the health care.
Today there is no national data source for prison health care.
No one regularly collates and compares statistics on quality of care or other health indicators. It's therefore not possible to generalize about whether private companies provide an overall better or worse standard of care than state-run programs. But praise for some state programs hasn't shaken the persistent shadow that looms over the for-profit prison health industry. Since the jail didn't stock most HIV meds, that meant long interruptions in treatment. It agreed to allow every prisoner who tested HIV positive to see a specialist within two weeks of being diagnosed, and to provide HIV treatment regimens consistent with national or community standards.