Old Behind Bars: The Aging Prison Population in the United States

Old Behind Bars: The Aging Prison Population in the United States
ISBN-10
1564328597
ISBN-13
9781564328595
Category
Older prisoners
Pages
104
Language
English
Published
2012
Authors
Jamie Fellner, Patrick Vinck

Description

Recommendations -- Methodology -- Older prisoners -- Why the aging prison population? -- Conditions of confinement -- Aging bodies, soaring costs -- Release from prison, dying in prison -- When is imprisonment no longer justified? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Additional tables.