Prisons and Elderly Inmates: Explaining Department of Correction Policies

• In Event: Law Enforcement, Punitive Policy and Reform

Brief Overview

This work explores reasons why some departments of correction adopt specialized programs for elderly prisoners, an increasing subset of the prison population. I use an original dataset with political ideology, demographics, sentencing law, and more.

Authors

• Jennifer Bashford, Georgia State University

• K. Juree Capers, Georgia State University