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| Older Prisoners, Higher Costs |
| By https://www.themarshallproject.org |
| Published: 05/07/2015 |
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The Justice Department on Tuesday bluntly issued yet another public call to the Bureau of Prisons to quicken the pace of its efforts to release more elderly and infirm inmates from federal custody. In an extensive report that criticized federal prison officials, the DOJ’s Inspector General confirmed several stark positions it has staked out consistently in the past few years: that the costs of holding elderly inmates is extraordinarily high and getting higher, that prison officials often don’t or can’t do an adequate job of caring for those inmates, and that new policies designed to expedite the release of inmates at low risk of recidivism have markedly failed to do so. Read More. |
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