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What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages to Devoting Entire Prisons

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What are the advantages and disadvantages to devoting entire prisons for geriatric inmates? Since the population of elderly inmates will continue to increase, should we make a change in sentencing before they are in prison? What role does health care have in this decision?


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