Providing health care to an aging prison population is a large and growing cost for states. Not only do inmates develop debilitating conditions at a younger age than people who are not incarcerated, but caring for them in the harsh environment of prisons is far more expensive than it is on the outside.
[For more of this story, written by Christine Vestal for Stateline, go to http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/August/12/For-Aging-Inmates-Care-Outside-Prison-Walls.aspx]
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