State comptroller: Aging prison population means higher costs for New York
January 13, 2022: The Citizen staff, The Citizen/auburnpub.com
DiNapoli: New York’s prison population has gotten smaller and older
January 13, 2022: Nick Reisman, NY1/Spectrum News
New York State’s Aging Prison Population: Share of Older Adults Keeps Rising
“In the months ahead, policy makers should carefully examine opportunities to reduce the population of incarcerated individuals age 50 and above.“ NY State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli This report provides …
New York’s Prisons Are Turning Into Senior-Citizen Centers
December 23, 2021: Errol Louis, Intelligencer, New York magazine
Elderly prisoners pose little risk, so why won’t the state let some of them free?
October 2, 2021: The Editorial Board, Boston Globe
Thousands of prisoners have died of covid-19. Because of the ‘tough on crime era,’ there’s worse to come
August 26, 2021: Frank R. Baumgartner, Tamira Daniely, Kalley Huang, Patrice McGloin, Niharika Vattikonda, Kamryn Washington, Sydney Johnson, Allison Swagert, Alexander Love and Lyle May, Washington Post
Those Most in Need Of Mercy: Why Melissa Tanis Works to Get Elders Out of Prison
By: susie day, CounterPunch - "My dad went to prison when I was five. I think we visited him a couple times while he was in jail, before he was sentenced. After that, I didn’t have contact with him since I was six or seven years old..."