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5 results foundAuthor: Turner, Shelley Title: Growing Old in Prison? A Review of National and International Research on Ageing Offenders Summary: This review examines the Australian and international research and other relevant literature that deals with issues surrounding the effective management and care of old and ageing offenders in prison and in the community. It summarises the key themes emerging from the literature, noting a need for greater international and local research, and identifies why this is a significant issue. The review also examines innovative approaches to policy and the management of older offenders and identifies best practice in relation to older prisoner detention, rehabilitation and postrelease support. Details: Melbourne: Victoria Department of Justice, 2010. 32p. Source: Internet Resource: Corrections Research Paper Series, Paper No. 03: Accessed March 18, 2011 at: http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/f963c3004389a48aa7abff34222e6833/Corrections_Research_Paper3_WEB2010.pdf?MOD=AJPERES Year: 2010 Country: International URL: http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/f963c3004389a48aa7abff34222e6833/Corrections_Research_Paper3_WEB2010.pdf?MOD=AJPERES Shelf Number: 121069 Keywords: Ageing OffendersElderly InmatesElderly Offenders |
Author: Kim, KiDeuk Title: Aging Behind Bars: Trends and Implications of Graying Prisoners in the Federal Prison System Summary: This new Urban Institute study provides an in-depth examination of the growth patterns in the largest correctional system in the United States - the US Bureau of Prisons. The number of prisoners age 50 or older experienced a 330 percent increase from 1994 to 2011. The authors find that the proportion of these older prisoners is expected to have an even steeper growth curve in the near future and they may consume a disproportionately large amount of the federal prison budget. Recommendations for policy and research include expanding data-driven knowledge on older prisoners and developing cost-effective management plans for them. Details: Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2014. 35p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 10, 2014 at: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/413222-Aging-Behind-Bars.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/413222-Aging-Behind-Bars.pdf Shelf Number: 133253 Keywords: Correctional AdministrationElderly Inmates (U.S.)Elderly OffendersFederal Prisons |
Author: Osborne Association Title: The High Costs of Low Risk: The Crisis of America's Aging Prison Population Summary: For the past four decades, we have witnessed the most sustained and widespread imprisonment binge known throughout recorded human history. The facts are all too familiar: the United States has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, yet is responsible for 25 percent of the world's incarcerated population. With an estimated 2.3 million adults in jail or prison and 1 out of every 32 adults under correctional or community supervision, the U.S. surpasses all other countries in sheer numbers and per capita incarceration rates. The immense costs of incarceration have increasingly framed the conversation around reducing the prison population as a matter of fiscal responsibility and budgetary necessity. This discussion is often centered around reducing the arrest and prosecution of so-called "non-violent drug offenders." But these issues belie a much more pressing human and economic concern: the aging prison population, whose costs for incarceration and care will soon prove unsustainable if meaningful action is not taken. And though prison is expensive, cost is far from the only justification to move away from our reliance on incarceration, as the continued long-term incarceration of aging citizens has serious moral, ethical, public health, and public safety implications. This paper aims to provide a brief contextual framework of the issues affecting elders in prison; to illuminate the ongoing efforts being undertaken to improve conditions within correctional facilities, increase mechanisms for release, and develop robust post-release services specifically targeting the unique needs of the aging population in reentry; and to sketch out preliminary recommendations to serve as a basis for further work to be done throughout several key sectors. Despite their apparent interrelated interests in the aging prison population, the fields of gerontology, medical and mental health, philanthropy, and corrections have only sporadically interacted around this issue, and never as a unified voice. Thus, a primary objective of this work is to encourage multi-sector dialogue, cross-pollination of ideas, and a shared foundational knowledge that will strengthen the connections among these fields and form a basis for unifying action. We believe such a partnership will be well equipped to identify and engage in appropriate measures that will immediately impact the aging prison population, while also developing and implementing the necessary socio-structural architecture to effectively address long-term mechanisms of diversion, release, and reentry. Austerity-driven approaches to shrinking budgets and increasing public discomfort with mass incarceration create an opportunity to seriously address the epidemic of America's graying prison population and to imbue our criminal justice system with values and policies that are humane, cost-effective, and socially responsible. Details: New York: Osborne Association, 2014. 20p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 18, 2016 at: http://www.osborneny.org/images/uploads/printMedia/Osborne_Aging_WhitePaper.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: http://www.osborneny.org/images/uploads/printMedia/Osborne_Aging_WhitePaper.pdf Shelf Number: 139071 Keywords: Costs of CorrectionsElderly InmatesElderly Offenders |
Author: Carson, E. Ann Title: Aging of the State Prison Population, 1993-2013 Summary: Discusses factors that have contributed to the growing number of older offenders in state prison, and examines changes in the sex, race, current offense, and sentencing characteristics of these offenders over time. It also describes how more prison admissions and longer lengths of stay contribute to the aging of the prison population and result in the growing numbers of offenders who are "aging in" to the older age cohorts. Data are from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Corrections Reporting Program, National Prisoner Statistics program, and Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities (1991 and 2004) and from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program. Highlights: The number of prisoners age 55 or older sentenced to more than 1 year in state prison increased 400% between 1993 and 2013, from 26,300 (3% of the total state prison population) in 1993 to 131,500 (10% of the total population) in 2013. The imprisonment rate for prisoners age 55 or older sentenced to more than 1 year in state prison increased from 49 per 100,000 U.S. residents of the same age in 1993 to 154 per 100,000 in 2013. Between 1993 and 2013, more than 65% of prisoners age 55 or older were serving time in state prison for violent offenses, compared to a maximum of 58% for other age groups sentenced for violent offenses. At yearend 1993, 2003, and 2013, at least 27% of state prisoners age 55 or older were sentenced for sexual assault, including rape. More than four times as many prisoners age 55 or older were admitted to state prisons in 2013 (25,700) than in 1993 (6,300). Press Release Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2016. 38p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 19, 2016 at: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/aspp9313.pdf Year: 2016 Country: United States URL: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/aspp9313.pdf Shelf Number: 139353 Keywords: Elderly InmatesElderly OffendersInmatesPrison PopulationPrisoners |
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Justice Committee Title: Older Prisoners Summary: UK prisons are failing to cope with the rapid growth in the number of older prisoners - partly caused by the increase in convictions for historic sexual offences - the Justice Committee has found in a new report that calls on the Ministry of Justice to develop a national strategy to provide for older prisoners effectively. Sir Alan Beith MP Chair of the Justice Select Committee: "The number of older prisoners is now very high and is likely to remain so. The growth of the older prison population and the severity of the needs of that population, warrant a national strategy in order to provide for them effectively." "Older and disabled prisoners should no longer be held in institutions which cannot meet their basic needs nor should they be released back into the community without adequate support. In one case we heard of a prisoner who was a wheelchair user being released from prison without a wheelchair." "We met some excellent prison officers and charity workers who are providing essential social care but an ad hoc system means that too often older prisoners have to rely on the goodwill of officers and their fellow inmates to fulfil the most basic of care needs." "Many older prisoners are currently being held in establishments that cannot meet their needs. The lack of provision for essential social care for older prisoners, the confusion about who should be providing it, and the failure of so many authorities to accept responsibility for it, have been disgraceful." Many of our prisons were built to house young fit men, but the growth in the number of older prisoners in the last decade has exposed the inadequacy of current provision for prisoners over 50. Poor accessibility, cramped conditions and inappropriate accommodation facilities in some prisons means the basic physical needs of older prisoners are not met. Suitable social care and mental health provision for older prisoners is also poor or non-existent in some parts of the prison estate. The responsibility to adapt the prison environment so that it suits less able prisoners lies with a prison's senior management team and the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The report recommends that NOMS conduct a comprehensive analysis of prisons' physical compliance with disability discrimination and age equality laws. NOMS should determine which prisons simply are not able to make the adaptation necessary to hold older prisoners and it should then no longer hold older or disabled prisoners in these institutions. Details: London: Stationery Office Limited, 2013. 144p. Source: Internet Resource: Fifth Report of Session 2013-14: Accessed August 5, 2016 at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmjust/89/89.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmjust/89/89.pdf Shelf Number: 130036 Keywords: Elderly InmatesElderly OffendersElderly Prisoners |