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LA: Free From Prison At Last: For an Aging Angola Inmate, Death Is the Only Release

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Free From Prison At Last: For an Aging Angola Inmate, Death Is the Only Release May 8, 2009 By James Ridgeway As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, the growth in harsh sentencing and parole restrictions are filling the nation?s prisons with old and infirm prisoners. While these prisoners couldn?t do much damage if they tried, they are rarely shown any mercy, and there is little interest in alternatives such as letting them out for monitored house arrest as they near death, so that they can spend their final moments in the ?free world.? The Shreveport Times earlier this year profiled one such prisoner, Douglas Dennis, 73, a severely ill, wheelchair bound inmate at the Lousiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Dennis had been convicted of killing an accountant in the Shreveport city jail in 1957 and killing another inmate at Angola in the 1960s, and was serving two life sentences...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).