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| Aging prison population strains system |
| By uticaod.com - AMY NEFF ROTH |
| Published: 06/25/2012 |
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ROME, NY — Joseph Henry, 70, expects to die in prison. Incarcerated at age 49, Henry won’t be eligible for parole until he’s 89. He’s serving 40 years to life for criminal possession of a controlled substance, his sentence made tougher under the state’s persistent felony offender law. “I almost look forward to (death). I’ve had enough,” said Henry, who has been imprisoned for the last three and a half years in the Walsh Regional Medical Unit, a maximum-security area within the medium-security Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome. A growing number of prisoners are likely to find themselves in similar situations. Like their counterparts nationwide, New York’s prisoners are aging rapidly, with the number of inmates age 60 and older more than quadrupling between 1990 and the end of last year, according to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Read More. |
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