Prisons are being overpopulated all over the country, more and more people are growing old in prison taking up space for those who are the delinquents that are from our younger generation. Many of the elderly offenders have families that will not get to see them ever again. People are getting old and dying because they are aging in prisons. In 2011, the population of a prison was 5,000 inmates and is expected to triple its amount in the year 2019. It is not because older people are committing more crimes, but the prisoners are growing old in prison. It is getting hard to maintain elderly people in prisons because they require too much attention due to the fact that they need medicine, therapy, machines, special food, etc. it takes over billions
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They wish to die in a free world and not in a rat hole as so what they call the prison. A study shows that the people in the prisons age faster than when they are out in the world. That can be because since they are with bad people, they can not sleep really well because they need to be checking their backs in case someone attacks. It is shown that people with the age of 50, are considered elders already (Ridgeway). Are prisons actually considering and realizing that what they have been doing in this past decade? Let’s think about it, prisons are not looking scary anymore, in fact, they are looking more like nursing homes for the elderlies. Old people deserve the freedom everyone else has and that’s is freedom. They can not do any harm to society I mean they are dying faster than we think because if it is not of sickness, it is because of the violent acts inside the facilities. I realized, thanks to an article that in fact elderlies in prison will not harm people out in the world because they do not even know where they are or how their shoes are supposed to go if the left shoe goes on the right or the right with the left (Fellner). They deserve to at least enjoy those few moments of their lives they have left to at least travel to a beach and die in peace because at one point or another they end up asking for forgiveness and so they are in peace with the
They wish to die in a free world and not in a rat hole as so what they call the prison. A study shows that the people in the prisons age faster than when they are out in the world. That can be because since they are with bad people, they can not sleep really well because they need to be checking their backs in case someone attacks. It is shown that people with the age of 50, are considered elders already (Ridgeway). Are prisons actually considering and realizing that what they have been doing in this past decade? Let’s think about it, prisons are not looking scary anymore, in fact, they are looking more like nursing homes for the elderlies. Old people deserve the freedom everyone else has and that’s is freedom. They can not do any harm to society I mean they are dying faster than we think because if it is not of sickness, it is because of the violent acts inside the facilities. I realized, thanks to an article that in fact elderlies in prison will not harm people out in the world because they do not even know where they are or how their shoes are supposed to go if the left shoe goes on the right or the right with the left (Fellner). They deserve to at least enjoy those few moments of their lives they have left to at least travel to a beach and die in peace because at one point or another they end up asking for forgiveness and so they are in peace with the