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| Caring for Elderly NJ Inmates Proves Costly |
| By nbcphiladelphia.com - Jean Mickle |
| Published: 04/08/2013 |
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Convicted of three counts of robbery when he was still a young man, Steven Thomas has been in prison since December 1982. Now 62, frail and suffering from a relapse of Hepatitis C, he's one of an increasing number of inmates in New Jersey's correctional institutions who have grown old behind bars. "I did a robbery when I was 27, 26 years old, and I've been locked up ever since," Thomas told the Asbury Park Press of Neptune while sitting at the edge of his hospital bed in a hospice unit at South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton. "I wouldn't want to die here." Read More. |
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