Aging in Prison: The Integration of Research and Practice

This book explores the costs and benefits of keeping aging inmates incarcerated during their most medically expensive yet least crime-prone years. The text concludes by examining what can be done to improve the outlook for this aging inmate population and proposed that a philosophical Ethic of Care" approach be implemented to guide both present and future practices. This book is essential reading for all students, practitioners, and advocates involved with or studying correctional practice" (back cover). Eight chapters comprise this text: why long-term and elderly prisoners should be studies; who long-term inmates are, the costs associated with them, and their needs; who elderly inmates are, the costs associated with them, and their needs; medical health issues; mental health needs; victimization; programs and sentencing options; and an ethic of care.