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36 states offer release to ill or dying inmates

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

(a list of states can be found by going to the sidebar of the article. The URL is below.) 36 states offer release to ill or dying inmates Programs help cut costs of health care, officials say By Marty Roney USA TODAY August 14, 2008 North Carolina and Alabama have joined a growing number of states establishing programs that allow the release of dying or infirm prisoners to cut prison system health care costs. Alabama's law goes into effect Sept. 1. It will allow inmates who are permanently incapacitated or terminally ill to be furloughed. It will also allow for the release of inmates 55 or older who have life-threatening illnesses. About 125 of the state's 25,000 inmates will be eligible, Alabama Prisons Commissioner Richard Allen said. ( Inmates considered for parole will be "the frailest of the frail and sickest of the sick," Allen said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 18, 2008 (boomark / email).