More than 10 million people are incarcerated worldwide; this number has increased by
about a million in the past decade. Mental disorders and infectious diseases are more …

Older incarcerated individuals comprise the fastest growing demographic in the US prison
system. Unhealthy lifestyles among incarcerated individuals and inadequate health care …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

The'punitive turn'has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state,
and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers …

An exponential rise in the number of older prisoners is creating new and costly challenges
for the criminal justice system, state economies, and communities to which older former …

The US criminal justice population is aging at a significantly more rapid rate than the overall
US population, with the population of older adults in prison having more than tripled since …

Background The number of older adults in the criminal justice system is rapidly increasing.
While this population is thought to experience an early onset of aging-related health …

Purpose In the literature, 65 years is commonly used as the age to designate an older
person in the community. When studying older prisoners, there is much variation. The …

The problem of providing mandated medical care has become commonplace as correctional
systems in the United States struggle to manage unprecedented increases in its aging …

In the community, geriatrics is the discipline of medicine specializing in care of the aged,
defined as 65 years and older. In prison, the age at which an inmate is deemed “geriatric” …