"January 2012"--Table of contents page. "Jamie Fellner, senior advisor in the US Program at Human Rights Watch, researched and wrote this report. Dr. Patrick Vinck, a research scientist currently with the Harvard School of Public Health and associate faculty member at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative compiled and analyzed the 2009 state prison admissions, population, and sentence length data presented here that was obtained from the National Corrections Reporting Program for 2009 (the exceptions are noted in the text)"--Acknowledgments. Photographs by Jamie Fellner. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Summary -- Recommendations -- Methodology -- Older prisoners -- Why the aging prison population? -- Conditions of confinement -- Aging bodies, soaring costs -- Release from prison, dying in prison -- When is imprisonment no longer justified? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Additional tables.
Summary:
Recommendations -- Methodology -- Older prisoners -- Why the aging prison population? -- Conditions of confinement -- Aging bodies, soaring costs -- Release from prison, dying in prison -- When is imprisonment no longer justified? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Additional tables.
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