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"Aging inmates straining prison systems"

By Douglas A. Berman

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The title of this post is the headline of this effective new AP article. Here is how the piece starts: Curtis Ballard rides a motorized wheelchair around his prison ward, which happens to be the new assisted living unit ? a place of many windows and no visible steel bars ? at Washington's Coyote Ridge Corrections Center. A stroke left Ballard unable to walk. He's also had a heart attack and he underwent a procedure to remove skin cancer from his neck. At 77, he's been in prison since 1993 for murder. He has 14 years left on his sentence. Ballard is among the national surge in elderly inmates whose medical expenses are straining cash-strapped states and have officials looking for solutions, including early release, some possibly to nursing homes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).

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