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Health issues with older prisoners cost Maine

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Health issues with older inmates cost Maine Panel weighs prisons versus nursing homes 8/16/10 By Mal Leary Capitol News Service AUGUSTA, Maine ? Maine is not only the oldest state in the nation, the inmates in the state?s correctional facilities are also aging, and that is resulting in higher health care costs and consideration of changes in the way the state houses elderly prisoners. ?This is a calamity that is coming,? said Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick, co-chairman of the Legislature?s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. ?The population in our prisons are getting much older every year, and it is something the next Legislature will have to look at because it is becoming a calamity now, where two or three sessions ago it was just a problem...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 19, 2010 (boomark / email).