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Dignity Denied: The Price of Imprisoning Older Women in California
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The impact of incarceration on elderly female offenders is investigated. Sections following an executive summary are: introduction; findings regarding activities of daily life, housing, work and programming, health care, abuse, support, surviving, and thriving, and growing old behind bars; responding to the crisis; geriatric prisons -- not a solution; and recommendations. The "primary recommendation of this report centers on reducing the number of older prisoners in California through a combination of early release programs and expansion of community-based alternatives to incarceration" (p. 60).