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- The US' massive prison population is getting older.
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
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Dying in prison of old age has got to be the most depressing thing ever
No being a victim of a victim in jail must really SUCK.
I bet these people did some pretty nasty stuff. You don't get life in prison for stealing cookies.
abdou salem very true. But it's sad to see an old person in these conditions.
abdou salem 100 years is above the average life expectancy, thats life
abdou salem you do if you steal the presidents cookies.
+jbody andrew actually it's meant to reform, not punish
You'd be surprised by how easy it is to end up in prison.
sadly, i think many of these seniors are getting better care in prison than they would out
Not to mention the cost. Selling the family home for their care. Having to divorce your husband to keep the home and get centerlink pension for his care because you both still have teenage children and need a home. Then to find the care staff and facility abuse your loved one. Physically mentally. And you can't take him home because of his condition. Yep work hard pay taxes. In a career for the community.
Not really, their docs and nurses are the worse ones
Not at all crozion health inc is killing more inmates then ever by negligence look them up
True! And more socialisation 😅
But yes it should be compassionate, homely and humanae, as they are humans too and most criminals come from a background.
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...
William Morton Jr. there drug addics
sam coops you’re full of Cra
Absolutely. These inmates do get healthcare.
@@linguinepast3743 No they don't! My son has to pay for his medical care. Unless you have been in jail you have no clue how they are ran.
For real!
He'd been in prison since 1948?!!!!!! Damn =\
+T. M He should stay in prison for his own sake . he does know what"s life outside and might die right after his release.
+Benny Saravi ----is that kind of like the banks being too big to fail? So we just give it a pass right?
+Julie Morris not close to what he said
I didn't say he said that. I simply made a contrast/compareison. I'm still waiting for a confirmation. The point I"M making is that it's bullshit. Whoever said "LOck them up and throw away the key." didn't have aging or illness in mind... And when you're SUFFERING with PAIN they can't help you with, it constitutes a violation of the 8th amendment. Which prisons are not allowed to violate. So in order to keep from violating the law, which APPLIES TO PRISONS AS WELL AS THE REST OF US, they should be releasing them.
But it's okay, agree or not. You are entitled to your opinion. But the anti-criminal mentality in this country has been lord and king over all for quite long enough , and those days are OVERRRRR..... We're working on it - we have the power of the internet, and with people like me on the job, and enough determination (we are a determined lot, us prison moms) - we have the power to chip away until the prison system in this country has NO RESEMBLANCE to what it is now.
In the year I've been around, I've written 4 major complaint letters about poor prison conditions for specific prisoners and each letter got a positive action because of it....
What about that 100 year old!
what's also sad is the fact that older people r treated worse in nursing homes
laws on how to treat inmates are strict. The crooks on the hill don't care about old ppl. SMH. it cheaper to live on a cruise then in a nursing home
luv2laf 22 Depends on the nursing home honestly. I volunteer at one and the only problem I ever see is the feeding. CNAs have a hard time getting all those residents filled up with food.
luv2laf 22 your 100% right.but then they do have pertly of guys to do the jobs of nurses.
luv2laf 22 not the older inmates, they get the best care and best health care
Truth Seeker maybe try looking after your father instead of taking him to any rest home you useless white person
1948 that's crazy man, wars have passed by, new technology have came by, and yet his still in there, that's sad....
+cathlic Vier what if it was one of your family members they killed, would you want them released?
I would have forgiven them, they were young, young people do stupid stuff, they learned their lesson already, people make mistakes.
this is worse than death. death penalty is more humane
Yep, besides it was 1948 things were different.
He killed people. THAT is sad. Infact, it's also sad that he's still alive today. He should have been executed. You take someone's life you should pay with your own life.
That inmate orderly has more compassion than some of the staff at nursing homes.
it's a nursing home now...
paid by taxpayers. .
Christine Trzcinski
I agree. But!!
They comited serious offenses.
I mean killing people and rapping women and mids and so on. .
This movies is sneaky because the producers hate USA.
Easy criticizing, but what is the solution?
Forgiving the crime?
No sentence?
life sentence versus death sentence?
Mob killing the killer before court?
The problem isn't the jail system.
The problem IS people.
I appreciate that you have given this some thought, however, one thing about your comment that I don't get is "the producers hate the usa" where do you get that? I can't help but think it's something you've heard from billy bob orielly or rush lipbalm or even god forbid Donald the trump....so which one is it?
Christine Trzcinski
You got frustrated/angry from my comment because I've found your biased perspective.
You really don't like USA due to your European blood and because the White Elephant EU is just about being demolished.
Your jealousy and hatred towards USA is an insane Dark hatred disfiguring your soul.
God mercy to your soul.
Antonio Pereira oddly enough Antonio I didn't get angry at all, I just asked a question, are you just trolling? I don't have "jealousy or hatred towards the usa, mostly just baffled...
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..
Prisoners getting old doesn't melt my heart. It's what happens to people.
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.
Instead of spending your time calling other people names, how about trying to get the gist of the comment. And frankly, where are they going to go "into retirement?" I'm thinking about their well-being. How are they going to pay for care? There are many things to consider.
Or worst .. they will commit a crime to go back.
Why did you assume that the younger generations of their family would be gone? Certainly some of the inmates might have some relatives able to care for them.
" 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.
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
A hundred years old oh well
Despite how feeble they are you have to think of the victims and their families.
Based on that logic, why not just shoot and kill them immediately rather than spend 100,000 per year to keep them alive? At this point the pain of the families does not outweigh the cost of keeping these people alive. Don't get me wrong, I think these older prisoners should be released especially the ones that are so sick that they can't even harm themselves.
Ohio Girl and what makes you better than them, you wish and would usher death upon them. same as they have done, the only difference is your only motive is spite and hatred. The whole point of the justice system is that no one should be able to bring death to another
Let them out and let's see how long they survive after that.
Marc Law Unless you are a bleeding heart liberal, then you don't care about the victim.
Ammar A Well said!
"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.
66 years in prison 😳😳😳😳😳 holy cow
66 years ago now will be 1953
Now is 69 years lmao
@@adambartoszek5457 he's dead right now
@@xpto41 no he ain’t
*when you realize old people aren’t as innocent as you thought*
The sad thing is that most of them have no place to go and no family even if they were released
Sara Siddique good
What is good in that? Everyone in here in the comments is so harsh lol. Yeah they deserve spending time in a prison but this is going a bit too far...
ValentinE so when a pedophile or rapist gets life in prison, people get happy untill they actually see ehst life in prisoon looks like. I think they need death by firing squad personally. But they definetly dont deserve to be released because theyre old
They should just be killed they are wasting so much tax payer money
@@TheValentineEnemy What's harsh is the victims will never see their loved one's again. Pretty sure inmates are at least able to see their family.
It's a tough one this, but for me, In the instances of the murderers, at least they got a chance to grow old.
It's not like living a life on this damned planet is so much better...
@@TheValentineEnemy How quickly you'd start singing a different tune if you were imprisoned for life.
14:19 He's talking about Donald Trump being a president 6 years back! *Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyeeet!!!*
And he took him on his private jet, good things are in store for us.
He never said Trump was a president
listen again ....
Endroo trump Parton some of these people
You're a moron
I'm shocked when he pull out that almost historical photo and all these years he still in there
Lots of 'poor' prisoners are pictured. Where are their VICTIMS pictured?? Where are the people killed, maimed, defrauded, whose lives have been changed?
lol right
agreed
Well this isn't about them, if you didn't know.
A critical analysis of this situation requires the incorporation of the impact of the crimes perpetrated on VICTIMS by these elderly criminals. A solution follows:Why NOT offer euthanasia to the prisoners, of any age, that do not want to continue serving their sentences?? That is cheap, and saves the public money. Why waste taxpayer funds on people who have probably NEVER contributed positively to society.
But in some cases they are. Why should someone who's committed a non violent crime or a crime to save their own life be kept in jail for their whole life?
When the murdered get up out the grave and have their life back. Then let these people out and have their life back also.
Right.
Exactly!!!
Isnt it cheaper to send these individuals incapable of caring for themselves to Nursing homes? or some type of homecare? especially those bedridden?
Is a Politician really capable of being just & objective when it comes to granting parole?
Something is very wrong with the US correctional system.
JuanCarlos C No it actually does not save money to send them to nursing homes. Those nursing homes still need funding.
Either way your taxes would pay for it in reality it's easier leaving them in jail this is technically a criminal nursing home although I wander what happens if they get severe dementia or Parkinson's
yeah,,,you too gay dude,,,,er i mean guy dud,,,er uh who ever you are
Its not always about money. Tell that to the famillies of the people these assholes killed. You liberal bleeding hearts say it is about rehabilitation....well its also about punishment! People say "oh....we give out longer sentences than other countries boo hoo hoo"... Imagine we didnt??? Imagine the ghettos then? If you could kill someone and do 3 years???? The reason other countries dont give as mong sentences is because they dont need to to keep the animals at bay....look at the murder rates there and violent crime...they dont glorify their criminals likenwe do here so ther when youndo something youre frowned on...look at Bonnie and Clyde...ppl live those murdering cop killers...untilmyou donawaybwith the causes if the animals acting that way....lessening the sentences will only cause them to kill more.
mike Lazembie If it were easier to execute killers we would have saved taxpayers tens of millions. Liberals have made it almost impossible to carry out death sentences with their constant appeals upon appeals. Media stories never stop about the inhumanity of the death sentence and even the Pope has given his unsolicited advice. Now that victims and their families have found some healing, bleeding hearts want to release these evil people as if they are the true victims.
This is all very very sad...
Except for revenge, there is no reason to keep old and sick people in prison, no matter how guilty they may have been, especially when their condition would make it impossible for them to commit a crime again. Unless of course, they have nowhere else to go...
theo9952 they are serving life, they deserve to stay in prison. Even if they can't commit another crime that doesn't matter it's the crimes they have already committed.
Yes, but there is something called MERCY, you know. A minimum at least amount of it, decent people ought to have, even for criminals.
theo9952 these people are mass murders and child rapists. They deserved no mercy! They never showed mercy to their poor victims, so why should we show them mercy?
The should be put down, its kinder for them. Quick blow to the back of the head with a brick.
WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE PICTURE AND NOT JUST PART.. NEED TO SEE HOW THE ELDERS ARE BEING TREATED .
That doctor is what I strive to be after the Navy. What a great guy
The feeling that you get from watching these videos is sympathy for the offenders, and you start agreeing with them, but then you remember that most of these people have killed, maybe more than once, or have done other atrocities and then you stop feeling sorry for them.
there should be a hospital attached to the prison where they get looked after when they are old and no longer fight
being old doesn't make them innocent, they committed terrible crimes and unfortunately for them, they must pay.
Jamesv85 so a men who can barely do anything should be locked up for things that happened when they were in their 20-30s? sure, murder is bad. But i don't recall any wars or civilizations that cared.
Alex Cassel Yes they should still be locked up.
xNBKxBurrito dude do you have a heart
the tax payers would be shouldering their burden inside or out.
Jamesv85 Well actually you are paying for it. You are a tax payer.
The problem with some of the sentencing is that some of the sentences are way too harsh in a way that when people get out of prison they have no chance or very little chance to get back to normal society so they might just need to sometimes re-offend because the only way might be thru some criminal stuff
People make mistakes. To call these people the "scum of the earth" is easy for you, because you've never been there. You won't even try to put yourselves in their place.
It's dark, humiliating, and unbecoming, especially after becoming a senior.
I've never been in prison, but I did 23 months in a County work release program for multiple OWI's. It sucked, and I learned my lesson. I was allowed to keep my job, remain to serve in the National Guard, and to drive. It was the worst time in my life. To think that some of these guys are stuck in a hell hole for decades just blows my mind. It doesn't take that long to rehabilitate someone of a crime, no matter how heinous. There is a fine line between punishment & rehabilitation. It seem that the prison system has lost their vision between the two.
Great point you make. Something is terribly wrong with the US Correctional system. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thank you for your reply.
Wilbur Snaffel Life should be mandatory for First Degree murder. You take a life you lose your freedom. Maybe less folks would take lives, huh?
well dont do the damn crime and you will be out
Wilbur Snaffel follow the money .... and see why 100-year old men are behind bars
My brother needs to be sat down and made to listen to there story's straight to his face all details word from word
Here's my imagined hypothetical situation. Being 85 and in prison for life, nothing really matters anymore. Whether or not ever released after 3/4 of a century old (75+) you will have already lived your life. If I were in that situation, I probably wouldn't care anymore. And if still alive upon release at that point in life, you'd probably just end up in intensive care or hospice where you'd never get out anyway.
True, but I haven't gone through the pain the victims endured and will continue to endure. Since I don't know what that's like firsthand, I must side with the victims family. Prison should always strive to improve conditions for elderly and infirm.
It switches the Cost to the State instead of Federal.
People, this is what these criminals don't think about when they commit these crimes. They don't stop and think hmmm I don't want to be in jail when I'm 90, so maybe I shouldn't rape and murder these people. You do the crime...you do the time. Also they say "to have cancer and be in prison and not have your family is really scary." Well I'm sure it was very scary to those people you murdered to die without their families. Tough luck buddy life aint fair. You made sure of that for your victims.
You're saying exactly what im thinking lol
none of these are rapists though, it's murders, which 90% of aren't thought out, it's an impulse decision in high stress environments.
I honestly think that the man at 3:40, may be ready to go back into public. 87 for fuck sake America enough is enough.
+Christopher Hitchens life in prison means life in prison
Badger at Toad Hall 87, what's he going to do at 87. Hell probably die on the walk out.
+Christopher Hitchens Maybe he could stay at your place?
neckarsulme Gotta watch out for those 87 year old's, they've been known to kill.
***** god damn it he is being punished you soft hearted weakling
the sad part is they probably get better care in prison than is available on the outside..... prisons are compelled by law to provide a certain level of care for inmates ...a lot of honest hard working folks spend their last days in a lot worse.....but the government should be able to find a more economical way to house elderly inmates.....the cell space is needed for younger more dangerous thugs...i doubt they need the security of a place like folsom or san quentin
GOD BLESS YOU LADY.. I WISH JOY & PEACE
I makes me sad seeing old people in prison and ones that won't make it out alive to breathe fresh air one more time but no one can help them
Killing at 82 yr old WTF!
To be honest i f i'd be old and poor with no family, unable to work and unable to walk on my own. Prison would be just the place one would want to be. You got guards taking care of you, medication, and friends.
this makes me cry
The Victims Family's Cried too!
I saw my grandpa in there !!!
17:57 is my Father I can't believe this has been out there all these years after he died . I'm speechless
If your serious I'm so sorry about your father.
Are u serious
Let's not forget,these people did horrible things to other people.I'm sure they have received more compassion than their victims.
Let's not forget many people get in jail even if they are innocents
Salvo Smith That's only a very small minority of people.
I agree with you. This isn't an issue of compassion for elderly. This is about having enough respect for the victim's families to enforce the punishment given. Period.
Sandi S A society that incarcerates criminals for their victim's sake does not deserve nor does it have a judicial system. This is not what prisons are for, and a society would do well to remember it. That's not justice, that's spite.
PutBoy
I agree, prison is to rehabilitate, in the US they seem obsessed with the idea of punishment, only punishment. I agree that there must be some punishment, but also prison should be a way to rehabilitate people, and try to make the do something good with their life, even in inside a prison. I don't get why thy call it correctional centres, they do not correct anything
I was allways told as a child.when u due wrong.wrong will follow u.everbody can change.
That's the whole purpose of jail and prison , for it to be a horrible experience . So you'll never commit a crime again to go back to jail. While i do think jail should have horrible treatment , inmates who will re-enter back into society should be rehabilitated .
No , I think non drug offenders should be sent to prisons that rehabilitate .
China Gyal 😂😂😂😂
Michael afterprisonshow?
i love afterprisonshow!
It's been shown time and time again that harsh punishment does not help. Only makes you worse and more likely to return
The comment section make me thing that people look more for revenge then for justice and fairness. Seriously, this prisonners became harmless, now.
Retribution, resitutuion. Revenge.
And to think that a lot of them attend Catholic church services that preach forgiveness. That is one reason I don't attend church. I am not a hypocrite.
ddivincenzo1 it's not about attempting Church but about inmate that became harmless, and also became in need.
ddivincenzo1 prison is for placing harmfull people out of society, but a guy who is sitting in a wheelchair and has terminal tumor, I think that divine justice was served, but did became harmless.
I am speaking about all those out here in communities preaching hate toward the inmates. They read about the church and how the bible stresses forgives for all. Yet, they still want blood. I agree about compassionate release for the ailing inmates.
Yea, because a 1 legged old man who's older than the prison he's in is really capable of hurting anyone or robbing a place. That's great.
XPWNZERX it's crazy... and some people are in support of it
XPWNZERX If you are in prison for life then it is no petty crime. If you are in prison for something then you are IN prison, you aren't just going to be set free because your old. And by the looks of it they are being treated fairly well.
Now think of the person they killed 60 years ago who don't get to live at all.
RicoDuroska I think he should be freed as well, but uh.. he did shoot two people when he was 82.
XPWNZERX
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
life without parole is not to reabilitate it`s to keep out from society :)
Why do you need guards for old people
old people can do bad stuff
Freshwater tanks lol
Freshwater tanks They will steal your teeth because they mistake them for dentures
Freshwater tanks yrue
Freshwater tanks to take care of them
Chaplain is such a beautiful incredible, compassionate woman.
This is really sad actually
you know whats sad? murder, these people have done it.
Well, I wish them all well, but they're probably better off where they are. Out there on the streets is less appealing.
+Linda Casey yea say that to the victims
+Pablo Escobar I really am on the fence on this but either way don't you think they are going to be institutionalized? If they have family who is willing to take care of them, yes different story but I am sure a large majority of them will end up in a nursing home same as what is going on in the prison. I say if they have someone to care for them then ok let them be taken care by family. But if not they should stay where they are at and let the other inmates get training and learn compassion taking care of the old, sick and dying.
+Pablo Escobar not all of em arr though, some framed and other wrongly accused. Like that Estella
+Pablo Escobar they kill one.. politicians kill THOUSANDS by signing a papper.. and they get the high life... see the hypocrisy of this country?this country is fucked.. the while system is flawed for rich favor... they dont care about inmate rehabilitation they only care about punishment and death .....the murderer becomes the victim of the murederer...which is the corrupt way of thinking. and very hypocritical.
***** Well that would be true if it werent all up to the Judges to decide the sentencing of a defendant, all any other ,ajor politicians can do (even then only governers and the president) is pardon them.
So he just gets his masters degree free!! That's crazy people like me have major school loans.
yoly507 lol welcome to America
Some prisons allow for prisoners to take out loans to get those degrees. Also, most prisons don't even have college courses available to inmates anymore, because the government stopped funding it..... years ago.
The degree is more than likely from a For-Profit college anyways, which most employers don't take serious to begin with. On top of that, he's a felon that's been incarcerated for 31 years, so he has no experience, he wouldn't get a job in his field anyways.
yoly507 if you would’ve been smarter you would’ve gone to prison college
Nobody should have student loans. Higher education should be free to all, even corrections inmates. A better-educated population makes a healthier nation, which is less likely to re-offend or require social welfare programs. It is high time we make some significant reforms in our criminal justice, including compassionate release, real rehabilitation, and officer training focused on human dignity and respect.
He would love to trade places with you
Jail is not just for rehabilitation. It is to keep them away from society -- which works brilliantly.
Life means LIFE. They took lives, therefore, they have to suffer the consequences for which they were sentenced. I don't think they should be mistreated, but should be cared for. They should not be allowed out just for being old. The people they murdered didn't get the chance to grow old, and their children missed out on a lot. That's the trouble with today's society-too lenient. There should be consequences for bad behavior.
M Paxton Hey, when you spend the average human life time in prison, you should be outside prison, as the sentence says life, only the mentally unstable, i mean those who are psychotic, should only see the outer life at least once a week with security that they will not escape.
M Paxton eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. aka we run out of money, more crime. etc
I hope you have not aborted a fetus or caused anyone to abort a baby. If you have, then you are as guilty as them. Where lies our sense of love and forgiveness? It is apparent that these people have paid their price in full and therefore, deserve to be released to their families.
Wow I'm depressed now
Growing old is a privilege few people deserve.
That care taker should get some sort of regression in his sentence, he's doing humanitarian and hard work for basically nothing.
We have a quarter million person nursing shortage in this country every year. Every year we release 200thousand prisoners back into life.
Wouldn't it be miraculous if we could train those prisoners to be nurses upon leaving prison?
What if we could train them to be simply personal care assistants to the millions of retiring people who will someday be old and frail? We have a massive shortage of those too.
Nope. That would make too much sense to the prison industrial complex. They don't want to release these people with skills - they want all these people stupid & still committing crime to come back in their prison, the sooner the better!!! So they are not obligated at all to actually educate them in anyway.
Instead of educating them, instead of rehabilitating them, they pocket that money so the gods can have an employee picnic every August. This is your tax payer dollars at work! Bend over.
Killers should be in prison, just because their old doesn't mean anything. Charles Mansion is old but I hope he never would be released just because he's old.
Charles Manson (NOT Mansion) was more or less innocent, unless you believe in telepathic murder. But he was to dangerous for the )ew parasite, and therefore kept him locked to his death.
Charles Manson is an innocent man, he never killed a single person. He should have not gone to jail in the first place.
@@cuteboy9469 Really?
Wow, this is so enlightening.
He is 83 which means he's been locked up since he was 17!!!! Can you imagine
Death penalty may have BEEN ALITTLE more humane. And cost effective. Morally WRONG however you look at IT no REALLY great choices. What's REALLY wrong with the whole picture. It START s with a POOR choice. Can't fix STUPID.
5:30 70.000 $ a year. Just think about that.
Patsfan87_Masshole medication and treatments are extremely expensive
is there air condition in that part of the prison I know a lot of Southern prisons do not have air-conditioning except in the hospital wing and some don't even have it there
I believe in life sentences. Especially for murder. But, when a prisoner gets to a point of elderly (not just old) or infirm, couldn't we, at the very least, throw a little paint on the walls to make it a little less dreary? I'm sure the staff would appreciate it.
100 years old & has been in prison since he was 82; also suffering from dementia...what in the world!! Another prisoner given medical release but has no one to pick him up, so so sad.
These people in prison go through trials and tribulations everyday there at war
people cheer when monsters get life in prison then complain that they actually spend their life in there... not saying all of these prisoners deserve this but i mean come on... some do.
rapist murders deserve to be in for a long time but people with small charges or drugs come on that's fucked up lol
oh yeah super fucked up, no doubt
The issue is it's easier to put someone in prison than it is to do anything else some of these people may be even not be completely guilty bottom line there is to many people in prison who shouldn't be and it's costing us money
This is so fucked up, they need to be treated better
This is so fucked up, they need to be treated better
In reality, there is little difference between the aged in the prison infirmary and those in a convalescent home on the outside. Maybe on the outside someone in the family will visit from time to time or maybe all the time, but you're still stuck in an institution, just one without bars. You're still stuck in the deterioration of aging and invisible.
nahnni Years ago, I was in a nursing home making a delivery when this one lady grabbed me and hugged me, crying, telling me that her daughter had dropped her off at a nursing home, and never returned again to see her.
Needless to say I was not happy, and I was able to find the phone number and called her and said I hope the same thing happens to you at the hands of your daughter.
Tragically, the elderly are abandoned all the time. It's just something that is not talked about openly in the news. People abuse the vulnerable...the aged, the children, the inbetween. I have no answer as to how to stop it. I wish I did know.
@@nahnni I'M LEAVING WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT I'M 70 YEARS OLD AT FOUR OPERATIONS FOR CANCER HAVE ARTHRITIS AND DIABETES I HAVE ONE SON TO SEND AN INSTITUTION FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED I HAVE A DAUGHTER THAT'S A COLLEGE GRADUATE HE DECIDED NEVER TO COME SEE ME AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHY BUT I HAVE JESUS AND WHEN MY HEART STARTS HURTING I LET HIS LOVE AND HIS PEACE IN HIS COMFORT FLOOD ME WHEN I WAS ABLE TO PASTOR CHURCHES I MADE A POINT TO GO TO WHAT I CALL THE POOR PEOPLE'S REST HOMES THE FOOD IS NOT GOOD IT'S DEPLORABLE AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD I WAS ABLE TO LET JESUS'S SUNSHINE COME IN NOT ONLY IN WORDS BUT WITH THINGS THAT COMFORT CUZ JESUS SAID WHEN YOU'VE DONE IT UNTO THE LEAST OF ONE OF THESE YOU HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME THE BEST IS YET TO BE YOU'RE RIGHT WE DON'T HAVE TO BE ON THIS EARTH FOREVER AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING WITH THE ONE THAT LOVES ME THE MOST
No, we BREAK generational curses, we don't perpetuate the evil, even if it's 1000% just.
This prison can really save money if they removed the uniforms and fence. I mean who needs them? they're just old or disabled people. It'll be impossible to escape.
I wish I could come over from NZ and help these elderly and the one dying in Americas prisons and jails.
They need empathy and no matter what they have done?,or how they got there?,they still need their dignity .
Ask there victims. Oh most of them aren't ALIVE. WON'T hear much from the DEAD. Really how do the victims FEEL.???????
I not only wouldn't want to turn 100 in prison, but I don't even want to live to be 100 on the outside.
13:14 Guy reminds me of Billy Bob Thornton
I have compassion for elderly men and women who are sick,but not the ones in prison for murder and other felonies! its understandable to feel compassion for someone whos terminally ill,but you need to remember that these are scum who had no qualms about murdering someone,raping women,molesting children,or committing other serious crimes against humanity.if they die a slow painfull death I say good,what goes around comes around!
revenge is sounding like what you just said..you sound just like a killer saying that and you don't wanna be like them
***** I thought by lockingup people who commit crimes we were helping prevent future crimes! let me see if I have this straight,you want to prevent crime,yet you expect the courts to go easy on people who commit crimes! you seem fairly liberal,so let me ask you this,what are we supposed to do when someone commits a serious felony like rape,murder,pedophelia or armed robbery? should we give them the ritz carlton at taxpayer expense,or do we punish them to the fullest extent of the law so maybe,just maybe future would be criminals will see that crime indeed does not pay,people who commit it do and possibly they'll think twice before following the same path?
They need punishment, but never need life in prison. I believe if they are truly bad, just execute them, if not, then no more than 20 years.
They deserve compassionate release.
You can't feel sorry for these old prisoners. At the end of the day, these inmates have committed serious crimes if you're growing old and dying in prison.
Seriously, if you're that fucked up to kill someone on purpose, you deserve to pay for it. It's not fair that you get to live your life or part of it while the person you have killed cannot. Violence doesn't fix anything.
Jamie Rodriguez I agree with you, yet keep in mind that context is everything. If someone abused your child and you got a chance at revenge I bet you wouldn't think twice.
+Jamie Rodriguez You have a point so what do you think should happen to the politicians who lie or engineer false flags like 9/11 to send people to war for profit? People like Bush, Cheney and Silverstein. Even President Johnson lied about the Tonkin attack. What do you expect when those running country are the biggest warmongering psychopaths on earth? P.S Jet fuel cant melt steel
If they killed someone, it's just. But other, crimes maybe shouldn't get life
and did he really just ask a 100 yr old man with one leg missing and dementia "what do you think of prison?" Hahaha really dude? It's just peachy!! smh
It's not about them getting out and harming anyone else, it's about them PAYING the debts they owe to society IN FULL
You realize how expensive it is to keep a SENIOR prisoner, our taxes
*9:38* broke my heart. I'm deceased
Loved the poem
The black woman who was set for release in 2014, how is she doing now?
FiftyHP she died of AIDS
Alexander Moffitt did she really???
Chandler Penn doubt it. Could be a troll comment.
She changed white
Canada is right in the middle of Europe and USA in terms of prison sentencing, not way to lenient like Europe and not overly harsh like the USA.
I feel bad that these men made such horrible decisions that led to die in prison. their punishment was a long life. God bless these men, I hope they find salvation in Christ
Orlando Acevedo me too😢
amber petals I'd be great if you just didn't comment I already knew You athiest would comment
O Flex Well said!!
O Flex Amen.
I think once you get a certain age they should release them regardless.
too old to remain alone in jail. i fell sad for the oldest
I would like to see an update with all of them after seven years
You do the crime, you do the time.
Such a cliché comment is a sign of low intelligence. If you can't think for yourself don't talk.
@@@cuteboy9469 be quiet, Karen
It just kills me that these inmates can accomplish things like earning master's degrees behind bars, and I was denied going back to school because I had trouble paying my student loan back and have to work minimum wage jobs because I can't finish my education.
Sorry no sympathy from me. They killed innocent people that never had the opportunity to live.
Thank you
alot of people talk about no sympathy because they killed someone innocent, but how do you guys know the victims were innocent? for all they know they might be killers too, drugs dealers e.t.c or people that "deserved" it. Killing someone innocent is much less likeally than counter partners is crime.
Not all of them
you going to spent the time and risk to figure out which ones arent....youre a fool to me! liberal
Becarefull of what you might now wish for.
I am now 72 and I now don't have three meals a day to eat but thankfully I am also not homeless yet.
I myself have served a number of years in establishments of one kind or another. and the guy at the end is rite you miss it in a twisted way. the feeling of going home on your release day is hard to describe. but by returning to help other inmates it must be a stranger feeling. knowing that at the end of the day you will be released every time you return. it must of taken a long time for him to get used to being a visitor and not an inmate.
That's my dad at 17:57. Wow. He died in prison, too
Guys, why do we feel more sympathy for the perpetrators and not the victims they hurt? Have a heart, people! They deserve to rot in prison!
Deserve?
Be careful with that.
Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long, you'll spend the rest of your days weeping, for each and every person in the world...
@@SuperGreatSphinx Trust me, I’ve worked that out a long time ago. Perpetrators deserve to rot. I don’t care about their sad childhood or whatever, I just don’t care. One month later and I still stand by my word.
@@dontmindme.imjustafraidofe9327 You’re a freaking moron. Grow up, Groomer.
The prison system as a whole needs a complete overhaul. Prison should primarily focus on rehabilitation, instead of just tossing people in a cage and leaving them to rot. That's not punishment; that's sadism. And when people are released, there should be more effort in helping them not to become a repeat offender, including NOT placing them right back in the environment from which they were first arrested. That's just baiting them to re-offend.
So what about a murder🤔🤔
Nobody over the age of 75 or found to have severe impairment such as mental impairment or issues, physical limitations, or otherwise should NOT be sent to rot like this! people like this are not a threat to anyone!
I really admire Larry and Phyllis.
Well these old guys would end up in retirement home anyway and state would have to pay for their expenses anyway (or let them die). This may even be better for them since they have 24h/7 care.
***** Yeah but they would be happy if they were at home.
Dude predicted Donald Trump' s election back in 2010...