An aging offender or an elderly offender in an individual over the age of 55 who breaks the law or is in prison. It is also a term than can refer to the concept of an aging prison population structure, or to the environmental or cultural pressures of being incarcerated accelerating the aging process. The numbers of elderly individuals breaking the law and being placed in prison is increasing, and presents a number of problems for correctional facilities in terms of health care and provision, as well as mental, social and physical health and healthcare issues for the inmates themselves.
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Famous quotes containing the words aging and/or offender:
“The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“The offender never pardons.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)