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| Aging prisoners increase taxpayers' cost |
| By Orlando Sentinel |
| Published: 08/04/2008 |
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FLORIDA - When 83-year-old Hugo "Bud" Kladivko shuffled into the Florida penal system last month, he joined a prison group whose surging membership poses costly problems behind bars: the elderly. The retired businessman, sentenced to life in the murder of his wife, Brenda, became the 71st inmate 80 or older in Florida prisons and one of 14,000 who are 50 or older, an age the state prison system defines as "elderly." "Someone 50 years old in the system might be like someone 60 outside," said Gretl Plessinger, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections. "They tend, as a group, to have smoked more, to have used drugs more and to have generally lived higher-risk lifestyles." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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