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Older Prisoners Denied Social Security

By Michael Blankenship

Mother Jones - Not long ago I described the plight of the growing numbers of older prisoners filling up the country?s prisons and jails. They receive poor health care and are subject to any number of cruel and inhuman punishments?people with bad arthritis are required to climb into upper bunks to sleep; it's next to impossible for inmates in wheelchairs to access parts of prisons available to younger people, like baths. Among the worst sights described to me by a medical consultant were sick and often older inmates of an Alabama women?s prison who were forced to get out of bed at 3 a.m. and stand in lines to obtain medicine. Another major issue faced by older prisoners is that they do not receive Social Security from the fund they paid into for years before being convicted of a crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).