As Outside, So Inside: America’s Aging Prison Population
October 20, 2014: Robert Winters, JD, corrections.com Read Here
Aging Behind Bars: Trends and Implications of Graying Prisoners in the Federal Prison System
September 5, 2014: KiDeuk Kim & Bryce Peterson, Urban Institute Read Here
Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Interviews: A Preliminary Report
September 2014: Ariane Davisson for RAPP Read Here
State Prison Health Care Spending: An examination
July, 2014: the Pew Charitable Trust and the Arthur D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Read Here
New York Parole Board Ignores Community
Statement by RAPP, June 23, 2014 Read Here
Race, Slavery & Incarceration
“Demonizing People of Color and the Poor in the United States By Way of the Thirteenth Amendment Hoax” by Mujahid Farid, March 2014 Read Here
Statement by RAPP After Review of Info Submitted During Parole Regulations Comments Period
February 6, 2014: Mujahid Farid, Statement of Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Read Here
Managing the Elderly in Corrections
2014: Frank J. Porporino, National Institute of Corrections Read Here
Stemming the Tide: Strategies to Reduce the Growth and Cut the Cost of the Federal Prison System
November, 2013: Julie Samuels, Nancy La Vigne, and Samuel Taxy, Urban Institute Read Here
“Smarter and Tougher on Crime” Remarks
August 12, 2013: Attorney General Eric Holder, Remarks to American Bar Association on the initial package of reforms dubbed the Justice Department’s “Smart on Crime” initiative. Read Here
RAPP response to Attorney General Eric Holder, “Smarter & Tougher on Crime”
August 12, 2013: Mujahid Farid Read Here
New York State COMPAS-Probation Risk and Need Assessment Study: Examining the Recidivism Scale’s Effectiveness and Predictive Accuracy
August 2013: Prepared by Sharon Lansing, Ph.D. for the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services.Pages 14-15 specifically address older people in prison. Read Here
You Can’t Get There From Here: Elderly Prisoners, Prison Downsizing, and the Insufficiency of Cost Cutting Advocacy
April, 2013: Elizabeth Rapaport, University of New Mexico School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series Read Here
The Dose-Response of Time Served in Prison on Mortality: New York State, 1989-2003
March, 2013: Evelyn J. Patterson, PhD, American Journal of Public Health Read Here
At America’s Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly
June 13, 2012: American Civil Liberties Union/ ACLU Read Here
Old Behind Bars: The Aging Prison Population in the United States
January 27, 2012: Human Rights Watch Find the book
It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs, and Geriatric Release
April, 2010: The Vera Institute for Justice Read Here
Growing Older: Challenges of Prison and Reentry for the Aging Population
January 2007: Brie A. Williams and Rita Abraldes, in Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities, John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY Read Here
Dignity Denied: The Price of Imprisoning Older Women in California
December 2005: Heidi Strupp and Donna Willmott, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Read Here
Second Chances: Juveniles serving life without parole in Michigan Prisons
January 1, 2004: ACLU of Michigan Read Here