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| No program for inmates at life’s end |
| By bostonglobe.com- Milton J. Valencia |
| Published: 10/06/2014 |
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James Flowers has spent nearly 50 years in prison for murdering a Springfield liquor store clerk. But these days, he spends most of his time in a hospital bed, immobile, mute, and suffering from end-stage dementia. At least one doctor has said the 72-year-old has only months to live. “He’s no threat to society at all,” said his sister, Mary A. Smith, who lives in Illinois and asked the Massachusetts prison system to release Flowers to his family. “He needs someone by his side.” Flowers and more than 30 other inmates diagnosed as terminally ill or permanently incapacitated present what has become an increasingly common predicament for the corrections system: As health care costs skyrocket, what do you do with an inmate who is so ill he is no longer a danger, but is instead a burden? Read More. |
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