Why Elderly Incarcerated People Struggle to Find Care After Prison Thousands of elderly people are released from U.S. prisons each year, and advocates say states urgently need to scale up their capacity to provide them with compassionate care. Hope Corrigan
My Friend Should Have Been Released from Prison. Instead, He Died There of COVID-19. James ‘Bumpy’ Bennett, who had twice survived cancer, was 71 and had served 48 years of his life without parole sentence. Robert Saleem Holbrook
Rikers Island Physician Voices Coronavirus Fears As Cuomo Meets With Officials Looking To Scuttle Bail Reforms Late Wednesday, the chief physician at the Rikers jail complex said on Twitter that judges and prosecutors must not leave New York City's jailed population ‘in harm’s way.’ Lauren Gill
‘It Will Certainly Save Lives’: A Q&A About Medicaid Coverage For People Preparing For Re-entry Vaidya Gullapalli
Sensationalist Tale of an Elderly Killer Feeds False Narrative The New York Times’s coverage of the one-off case of a 77-year-old man omits key facts about how older adults are treated by our punitive legal system. Adam H. Johnson
