A new study traces the aging of America’s prison population to the harsh criminal sentencing of the 1980s “crack” era, when an entire generation in its early 20s was locked away for drug crimes that earned lighter terms just a decade later.
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We spend an incredible amount of money warehousing older and sicker low-risk people, while not spending what we should on intervention and re-entry resources for young people. A smarter approach to incarceration would do the reverse, write two justice experts.
Some studies have started to show medical evidence behind the idea that at around age 50 prisoners start to contend…
Old prisoners are the fastest growing population in U.S. prison systems, which is costing taxpayers a fortune, reports Al Jazeera…
USA Today is the latest media outlet to focus on the problem of elderly prison inmates. Of the 1,000 prisoners…
Convicted killers at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo help care for prisoners with Alzheimer’s disease and other…
Prisoners are aging rapidly and American prisons, jails and correction officers are unprepared to deal with their needs, says a…
Aging prisoners and their extensive and costly medical care place a huge burden on the corrections system, but states with…
Depression and suicide are considered top risks for inmates over 50. A Connecticut team is preparing to explore those risks—and how to cope with them—in a study of 250 elderly inmates. It’s one of the first studies of its kind.
Several lawmakers supported a call for Gov. Greg Abbott to bring lawmakers back immediately to approve air conditioning for prisons, which the Legislature declined to do during its regular session.