Washington Post: The painful price of aging in prison
“Even as harsh sentences are reconsidered, the financial — and human — tolls mount.” “Twenty-one years into his nearly 50-year sentence, the graying man steps inside his stark cell in the largest federal prison complex in America. He wears special ...
Daily Kos: Record 346 inmates die, dozens of guards fired ...
shaunking | Full Story at Daily Kos >>> “The United States has a prison crisis of epic proportions. With just five percent of the world population, but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, the United States has, far and away, ...