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The Aging Inmate Population: Southern States Outlook
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Feb. 22, 2007
ANNOTATION: Changes since 1997 in the elderly (individuals 50 years old and above) prison population in Southern states are recounted. Sections of this report are: introduction; the increasing elderly inmate population; challenges -- health, housing, parole, and recidivism; Southern state profiles (i.e., Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia); summary; and recommendations. Southern states have an average of 10.44% elderly inmates compared to the general population of 9% elderly in the U.S.