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| The Future of American Prisons Is Old People |
| By motherboard.vice.com - Ben Richmond |
| Published: 08/14/2013 |
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In 2013 in America, our population is aging and our prisons are full, so we probably should have anticipated that a surplus of elderly prisoners would pose a problem to the system. After Attorney General Eric Holder speech on federal prisons yesterday, much of the ensuring coverage focused on his suggestion of doing away with mandatory minimum sentencing for non-violent offenses. But Holder also proposed other interesting reforms, including compassionate early release for elderly prisoners who no longer pose a threat. The issue of long mandatory sentences and a growing population of elderly in prison are of course interrelated. And for 6 years now, the Justice Department has called the aging prison population an “urgent concern." There are almost a quarter-million inmates in state and federal prisons that are classified as "elderly" or "aging," according to a 2012 report by the ACLU. Human Rights Watch found that the number of sentenced state and federal prisoners age 65 or older grew at 94 times the rate of the overall prison population between 2007 and 2010. Read More. |
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