The latest available figures from 2010 show that 8 percent of the prison population – 124,400 inmates – was 55 or older, compared to 3 percent in 1995….
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According to a report being released Friday by Human Rights Watch. This oldest segment grew at six times the rate of the overall prison population between 1995 and 2010, the report says.
Are these individuals worth the money spent to keep them imprisoned? Should they be ‘released’ back into society at a certain point so that the states do not have to pay for their stay at the State run prison facilities? Taxpayers respond…
SOURCE: NEWS ONE
