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The Graying of America?s Prisons: Part Two (with a focus on Angola LA, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El in Dallas PA and Norfolk MA Prison)

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Graying of America?s Prisons: Part Two By James Ridgeway Thursday, December 10th, 2009 Part two of our special report explores the movements in several states to relieve the burdens and tragedy America?s increasingly geriatric prison population Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, members of the Angola 3, have spent most of the past 37 years in lockdown in Louisiana. A civil action currently in federal court claims that both men, now in their 60s, have suffered serious harm to their physical and mental health from their years in isolation, spending 23 hours a day alone in 6 x 9 foot cells. What distinguishes this case in particular is that it not only challenges the constitutionality of long-term, continuous solitary confinement, but draws on its particular effect on aging prisoners...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).