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Old Prisoners Denied Their Social Security by James Ridgeway

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Old Prisoners Denied Their Social Security by James Ridgeway from his blog Unsilent Generation July 21, 2009 Not long ago I described in the briefest of terms, the plight of the growing numbers of older prisoners now filling up the country?s prisons and jails.They receive bad health care and are subject to cruel and inhuman punishment in any number of ways,i.e. requiring people with bad arthritis to climb to the upper bunk to sleep, or making it next to impossible for inmates in wheelchairs to access parts of prisons available to younger people, such as getting into and taking a bath from a wheelchair..Among the worst sites described to me by a medical consultant were ill women forced to get out of bed at 3 am,then stand in lines,to obtain medicine in one Alabama women?s prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).