Jeanne Woodford quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2014
Jeanne Woodford … agreed, saying health care for former inmates should be viewed as a public safety issue. “I think one only has to look at when AIDS became an issue. There were people leaving prison HIV-positive or with full-blown AIDS and there was no treatment in the community, so they would violate their parole on purpose to get medical care,” she said, adding that recidivism among those populations declined once cities started offering more treatment.