By: Kathryn Haslanger and Ruth K Finkelstein: New York Times
Re “Living Out the Twilight Years in Prison” (Opinion, Oct. 22), by Joseph Rodriguez and Carmilla Floyd, about older prisoners in California:
In New York State, we, too, face a troubling paradox as the imprisoned older population grows rapidly. One in four incarcerated individuals in the state is over 50, revealing an unsettling trend in which the prison population ages faster than our communities….