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Elder Parole is an Aging Issue
By: Hunter Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging While the number of people in New York State prisons has been declining, the number and proportion of older people in prison has …
DEATH BY INCARCERATION IS TORTURE • Advocacy and Legal Groups Urge U.N. to Call for Abolition of Life Sentences in U.S.
Dozens of organizations across the United States submitted a complaint to United Nations independent experts challenging the United States’ policy and practice of condemning people to death by incarceration (DBI), …
Nothing But Time: Elderly Americans Serving Life Without Parole
By: Ashley Nellis, Ph.D., The Sentencing Project
Reports by Date
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
The Answer is No: Too Little Compassionate Release in US Federal Prisons
2012: Human Rights Watch 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