Dying Inside: Elderly in prison | Fault Lines
971,326
Publicado 2010-06-07
Long sentences that were handed out decades ago are catching up with the American justice system.
Prisons across the country are dedicating entire units just to house the elderly.
During difficult economic times, the issue has hit a crisis point. Estimates are that locking up an older inmate costs three times as much as a younger one.
How are prisons dealing with this issue? Who are the prisoners that are turning gray behind bars?
Josh Rushing gains exclusive and unprecedented access to jails and prisons across the country to tell the story.
People featured in this film include: Justin Jones, Kevin Bartley, Plutarcho Hill, Lewis Young, Edward Sottile, Larry White, Seth Anderson, and Estella Jackson
Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/AJFaultLines
Follow on Facebook: facebook.com/AJFaultLines
Follow on Instagram: www.instagram.com/AJFaultLines
See all episodes of Fault Lines: youtube.com/show/faultlines
Meet the Fault Lines Team: aje.me/ZhfAbH
- Subscribe to our channel: aje.io/AJSubscribe
- Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/AJEnglish
- Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/aljazeera
- Check our website: www.aljazeera.com/
#AlJazeeraEnglish #Prison #US
Todos los comentarios (21)
-
I bet these people did some pretty nasty stuff. You don't get life in prison for stealing cookies.
-
He'd been in prison since 1948?!!!!!! Damn =\
-
sadly, i think many of these seniors are getting better care in prison than they would out
-
There are plenty of senior men and women in Homeless Shelters with the same problems as these prisoners and they receive less services than these prisoners and they have committed no crimes...
-
it's a nursing home now...
-
what's also sad is the fact that older people r treated worse in nursing homes
-
Dying in prison of old age has got to be the most depressing thing ever
-
1948 that's crazy man, wars have passed by, new technology have came by, and yet his still in there, that's sad....
-
That inmate orderly has more compassion than some of the staff at nursing homes.
-
" he is paid 5 dollars a month " Jesus christ. I was expecting 5 dollars a day and still going to cringe at how low that would be.
-
66 years in prison 😳😳😳😳😳 holy cow
-
"Old people are harmless" Then in the same breath tell me this guy murdered 2 women at 82... I live in OK. And if my parole was up to Mary Fallon actually doing something. I'd just accept I'm not going anywhere till her term is over.
-
Realistically, to release the prisoners in this documentary would be worse than keeping them locked up until the day they die. They've been incarcerated for so long, there's nobody left on the outside as far as family. They couldn't begin to function, since society has changed drastically since they came to prison. I can understand not wanting to die in prison, yet the alternative isn't any more attractive. As far as an expense view - they'd be on public assistance and probably hospitalized if they were out, so nothing would really change for them.
-
Prisoners getting old doesn't melt my heart. It's what happens to people.
-
when you realize old people aren’t as innocent as you thought
-
Its hard to see them so old and harmless and imagine they killed ,raped,tortured people i definitely agree with that dude that got out when he said everybody has a point in life where they change and that isnt something we can sentence but you also have to put yourself in the shoes of the victims kids and grandkids and understand if someone killed youre grandparents or parents you would want them to feel the same pain as you
-
14:19 He's talking about Donald Trump being a president 6 years back! Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyeeet!!!
-
The man with dementia broke my heart.... his life, all wasted, there.. Behind bars.. And now he barely can remember the life he lived outside..
-
Despite how feeble they are you have to think of the victims and their families.
-
It's a tough one this, but for me, In the instances of the murderers, at least they got a chance to grow old.
