Health care for aging prisoners costs far more than it does for younger ones, just as it does outside prison walls. Corrections departments across the country report that health care for older prisoners costs between four and eight times what it does for younger prisoners.
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Move Is on to Make End-of-Year Pardons Less Random
Several governors and state legislatures have moved in recent months to make the clemency process easier and pardons more frequent, reflecting a growing consensus that harsh mandatory minimum sentences have left too many Americans behind bars.
Amid A Shortage Of Welders, Some Prisons Offer Training
Baby boomers with the skill are retiring and not enough young people are replacing them. In Georgia, inmates are given access to heavy tools and blowtorches so they can get a welding certificate.
How Solitary Confinement Became Hardwired In U.S. Prisons
Early experiments in isolating inmates took place at a Philadelphia prison in the 1800s. Though discredited as cruel, the practice was later revived nationwide during the drug war.
Criminal justice commission gets an earful in Nome
Alaska’s criminal justice system is expensive, ineffective, and unsustainable — that’s the hard truth shared by a group of legal experts on the Alaska Criminal Justice Commission.