Henderson v. Thomas

OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

The seven plaintiffs (Louis Henderson, Dana Harley, Dwight Smith, Albert Knox, James Douglas, Alqadeer Hamlet, and Jeffery Beyer) bring this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and a class of all current and future HIV-positive prisoners incarcerated in Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) facilities. They challenge the ADOC’s policy of categorically segregating HIV-positive prisoners from the general prison population, arguing, among other things, that, despite the dramatic advances in the treatment of HIV and despite the plaintiffs’ differing…