Dear Correctional Colleagues,

The air is velvet with humidity. The grass is lush and green. Daylight stretches away into the evening and warm breezes embrace us. We delight in the glory of summer, but know the time is limited, and one day soon, we'll feel the first crisp hint of fall. With fall will come a change, and as it goes with summer, so it goes with IDCR.

This will be IDCR's last issue as an independent non-profit (501c3) organization. We can look back in pride at our work - ten years of solid work almost to the day - first as HIV Education Prison Project (HEPP) and more recently as IDCR. We've written, edited and published more than 100 issues in our nine volumes of work over the past decade, on topics ranging from HIV testing and treatment of inmates to the management of chickenpox outbreaks in correctional institutions. We pushed the envelope. We took action. We advocated for better HIV care.

We can positively claim that our years of productive work have improved the care of inmates with HIV and the management of infectious diseases in prisons. We believe that we collectively contributed to improving the standards of health care in our specialized setting, just as we were able to build strong relationships across state (and institutional) lines and national borders. We celebrate our teamwork and look back on our work with pride and amazement, but these glorious, halcyon days, are coming to a close.

Dear reader, just as summer must end one day soon, we will publish this last issue of IDCR and move on to the next thing. IDCR will be reborn in a new form, under a different guise, as yet to be determined. We, the founders, editors, the IDCR editorial board, and the advisors of IDCR, appreciate your involvement as readers and hope that you enjoy the end of our glorious summer. We wish for you the best that the turning seasons may bring.

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