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Keeping Low-Risk Elderly Prisoners Behind Bars Is a Budget Buster
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![Debbie Coluter, a certified nurses assistant, assists an elderly inmate, with Alzheimer's Disease, to his cell at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, California. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli)]()
Keeping Low-Risk Elderly Prisoners Behind Bars Is a Budget Buster
Inimai Chettiar and Will Bunting argue that the mass incarceration of the elderly is unnecessary and expensive.