Many more older people are leaving prison and face unmet needs for housing and health care − as well as a tangle of groups trying to help
- Written by Angela S. Murolo, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology, St. Francis College
Nearly a quarter of all people in U.S. prisons are 50 or older, like these inmates at FMC Devens in Massachusetts in 2015. Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesAmerican prisons are rapidly graying.
Following decades of mass incarceration, exacerbated by the U.S. war on drugs, the proportion of older people in prison has increased since...