FINANCIAL TIMES: From his battered wheelchair, 87-year-old Melville Atkinson can barely see over the mounds of razor wire heaped against the prison’s perimeter fence.
After 21 years in jail for a sexual assault, the second world war veteran has been placed in a special prison for geriatric inmates, Deerfield Correctional Centre, located on the wooded border where Virginia meets North Carolina…
Older prisoners like Mr Atkinson require specialist diets, medication and round-the-clock nursing – at an average cost of $70,000 a year, three times that of regular inmates, according to the Pew Center on the States, a think tank. Some cost as much as $1m a year… (more)
