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Dear @NewYorkStateAG @TishJames: why are you keeping an HIV+ Black man in prison 13 years after he completed a 12-year sentence for crimes committed in his teens? Remember how Rudy Giuliani branded NuShawn Williams back then? #FreeNuShawn 
Most everyone alive in 1997 will remember NuShawn's story. Branded an "AIDS Monster" by the tabloids, he was arrested in upstate NY, alleged to have infected 13 women with HIV, including some after his diagnosis the year before (he thought the health officials were lying to him).
It's the most notorious HIV criminalization case in U.S. history. His teenage story is the kind that makes sympathy hard. The NYT described his "sprint into trouble — from a broken home to childhood thievery, from gangs to crack dens, from girl to girl."
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