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| Oklahoma manages elderly inmates despite overcrowding |
| By swtimes.com- Justin Wingerter |
| Published: 07/30/2018 |
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LEXINGTON, Okla. — When Donald Vaughan went to prison for murder, he was 19 years old. Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, Marilyn Monroe was a star and a newspaper cost five cents. Fifty-eight years later, Vaughan is still there. He has the lowest inmate number in Oklahoma, along with a growing litany of ailments that could cost taxpayers untold thousands of dollars. “We’re too old to continue committing crimes, nor would we want to,” he said of himself and other inmates his age. “I say, give us the chance to prove the negative opinions of ex-convicts wrong.” There are 350 inmates in Oklahoma state prisons who are 70 years old or older, according to Department of Corrections records, and 21 who are at least 80 years old. Read More. |
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