Aging Prisoners Make Up Fastest Growing Segment Of Nation's Prison Population

VACAVILLE, CA - DECEMBER 17: (Editorial Use Only) Jim Robelen, age 76, a hospice care patient diagnosed with terminal pulminary fibrosis, watches television in the morning in the hospice care wing of California Medical Facility (CMF) on December 17, 2013 in Vacaville, California. Robelen has been in prison since 1994 after being convicted of murder; he has been at CMF since 2011, and in the hospice care wing since October of 2013. He spoke glowingly of the doctors and the chaplain of the CMF hospice care. While California has a compasionate release program for terminal patients in the last six months of life, the decision is ultimately made by judges, who frequently deny the request. CMF's hospice was the first of it's kind, originally created in the 1980s during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The program currently holds 17 beds. When a patient arrives in CMF's hospice, doctors immediately apply for compassionate release. As of June 2013, California had 133,000 prisoners, of which 15,000 were over the age of 55. The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, and as of 2010 the national prison population was 2.26 million people. According to Human Rights Watch, between 1995 and 2010 the total number of state and federal prisoners incresased by 42%, while the number of prisoners 55-and-older skyrocketed by 282%. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
VACAVILLE, CA - DECEMBER 17: (Editorial Use Only) Jim Robelen, age 76, a hospice care patient diagnosed with terminal pulminary fibrosis, watches television in the morning in the hospice care wing of California Medical Facility (CMF) on December 17, 2013 in Vacaville, California. Robelen has been in prison since 1994 after being convicted of murder; he has been at CMF since 2011, and in the hospice care wing since October of 2013. He spoke glowingly of the doctors and the chaplain of the CMF hospice care. While California has a compasionate release program for terminal patients in the last six months of life, the decision is ultimately made by judges, who frequently deny the request. CMF's hospice was the first of it's kind, originally created in the 1980s during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The program currently holds 17 beds. When a patient arrives in CMF's hospice, doctors immediately apply for compassionate release. As of June 2013, California had 133,000 prisoners, of which 15,000 were over the age of 55. The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, and as of 2010 the national prison population was 2.26 million people. According to Human Rights Watch, between 1995 and 2010 the total number of state and federal prisoners incresased by 42%, while the number of prisoners 55-and-older skyrocketed by 282%. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Aging Prisoners Make Up Fastest Growing Segment Of Nation's Prison Population
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