Incarcerating a young person costs up to $70,000 annually. For an older person, this can soar up to between $100,000 and $240,000, according to a 2023 elder parole brief. These costs are funded entirely by the taxpayer, and often, people do not receive the level of healthcare they require.
‘We Are Such a Punitive Country’: America’s ‘Death by Incarceration’ MachineAmerica’s prison population is aging into disability and disease. Understaffed clinics and delayed treatments turn serving life into a death sentence: as the system breaks down, the logic behind decad...www.thexylom.com