Should We Let Old Prisoners Go Free?
We tend to think of prisons as places teeming with angry young (and tattooed) men, ripped from hours of pushing iron in the yard.
But two new studies are calling that shopworn notion into question. In actuality, our nation’s prisons are teeming with the old and infirm. It’s exacerbating a pretty significant prison-crowding problem across the country. The Wall Street Journal reported on this mounting issue recently.
