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Prison Healthcare Costs Go Up In US As Inmates Age
The Corrections Today report predicts the nations older inmate population could increase tenfold in the next decade and the associated health costs could double that.
There are many complicating factors too. Most of the elderly inmates at Mens State Prison in Georgia are serving lengthy sentences for crimes committed when they were younger, officials said. A "three strikes law" passed in the 1990s, contributed to much of the growth in the states geriatric prison population.
Three strikes laws are statutes enacted by state governments in the United States which require the state courts to hand down a mandatory and extended period of incarceration to persons who have been convicted of a serious criminal offense on three or more separate occasions. These statutes became very popular in the 1990s. Twenty four states have enacted some form of habitual offender laws.
Elsewhere also, arrests of elderly offenders have risen, but little is known about why the elderly commit crimes.
That these measures have not meant any crime rate decline is a different story. The fact is the prison population increases in the process, and, with it, the burden on the exchequer.
Some states, such as Virginia and Pennsylvania, have built geriatric prison facilities that resemble mini-hospitals, equipped with medical devices and oxygen tanks. Prisons are being licensed as acute-care centers with a crew of registered nurses, CNN reports.
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