Prison scam.
[No authors listed]AIDS: An inmate, Steven Jay Russell, fooled the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles into granting him an early special needs parole last October. Russell supplied documents indicating that he was dying of AIDS, and the Board granted the parole after finding that he was physically incapacitated. The parole was revoked after he was seen walking. However, further records indicated that Russell's condition had worsened, and after serving two years of a 45-year sentence for theft, he was given a 14-day pass for experimental AIDS treatments in Houston. Russell fled to Florida, where he was arrested and is awaiting extradition to Texas. Russell is a known con man who has falsified records and impersonated a judge in the past. It is unclear if he was HIV-positive or if he used false documents when he entered the prison system.
PMID: 11365318 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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