Monthly Temperature Averages. The temperature is hot year-round at Cancun on the Yucatan Peninsula. Winters are pleasantly so, averaging daily highs of 84 degrees Fahrenheit (29 Â°C) and lows of 69 Â°F (20 Â°C). Summers are less comfortable, with days typically heating up to 94 Â°F (34 Â°C) and nights cooling off to 76 Â°F (25 Â°C).
People with HIV sometimes have to spend time in a jail or prison. Jails are usually operated by counties. Prisons are state or federal institutions. 1  The rate of HIV among prisoners is 5 to 7 times that of the general population. 2  HIV rates are highest among African American prisoners.
DNA evidence is a relatively new instrument of exoneration. The first convicted defendant from a United States prison to be released on account of DNA testing was David Vasquez, in 1989. Recently, DNA evidence has been used to exonerate a number of persons either on death row or serving lengthy prison sentences. As of October 2003, the number of states authorizing convicts to request DNA testing on their behalf, since 1999, has increased from two to thirty.