From Mobility Issues to Alzheimer's and Cancer, Advocates Say Illinois Prisons Are Struggling to Care for an Aging Population | Chicago News
More than half of IDOC inmates serving a life sentence are 55 or older. Caring for an aging prison population is a costly endeavor, advocates say, and the health care elderly prisoners do receive often falls short. That’s why some are calling for a new parole system.
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