Elderly and Imprisoned: ‘I Don’t Count It as Living, Only Existing.’
Decades of tough-on-crime sentencing and increasingly rigid release policies have left many to grow old in a system that was not designed to accommodate them. [Source]
Publication Date:Origin: nytimes.com
Category: Prisons and Prisoners
Topics: accommodate, designed, system, policies, release, rigid, increasingly, sentencing, tough-on-crime, Decades, Existing, Living, Count, Don’t, Imprisoned, Elderly
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/opinion/aging-prison.html