In prison, “elderly” begins at 55, according to studies from the National Institutes of Health, unlike in the community, where being over 65 typically defines the elderly. People aged 55 and over make up nearly 17% of the incarcerated population nationwide. In 1991, this number was just 3%.
‘We Are Such A Punitive Country’: America’s ‘Death by Incarceration’ MachineAmerica’s prison population is aging into disability and disease. Understaffed clinics and delayed treatments turn serving life into a death sentence: as the system breaks down, the logic behind decad...www.thexylom.com