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America’s ‘Nursing Homes Behind Bars’
By 2030, an estimated one-third of all incarcerated people in the U.S. will be elderly—many of them suffering serious mental and physical impairment. It’s not only a waste of taxpayer dollars to keep them behind bars, argues a law professor, but a violation of Constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.