Trends In Inmate Aging: A Look At New York’s Prisons
Yasmin Young / WBLK 93.7 — Some prisons in New York have quite a few senior citizens incarcerated in them. While many of us may not think of grey-haired grandparent types as criminals, there's a healthy number of prisoners aged 55 and older in New York State prisons. Either they got locked up at a young age but are serving long or life sentences, or they got into a life of crime at a ripe old age...