American prisons are rapidly graying. Following decades of mass incarceration, exacerbated by the U.S. war on drugs, the proportion of older people in prison has increased since the early 1990s.
Each time she returns, the prison population seems to get older, she said. “(Some people) do bad things on purpose and get caught so that they can come to prison again, if they run out of money ...
The move can also affect the benefits that a partner or a carer is entitled to receive. There are various concessions, discounts and other schemes that allow older people to travel free or at a ...