Older Prisoners Case Study

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An exponential increase in the number of elder prisoners is creating new and costly challenges for the criminal justice system, state economies, and communities to which older former prisoners return. Through the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, prisoners have a right to timely access to an appropriate level of care for serious medical needs. Yet many health care and service providers in the criminal justice system are underprepared to provide cost-effective quality care for older adults. Older prisoners disproportionately account for escalating correctional health care costs and create new and costly challenges for the criminal justice system. Prison-based health care systems increasingly must provide care to older persons

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