Senior Prisoners

[AWPrime]

A dillemma.


One must take care of the elderly but on the otherhand you don't want to give luxery to prisoners.


What to do?

 

[Grammatron]

A dillemma.


One must take care of the elderly but on the otherhand you don't want to give luxery to prisoners.


What to do?

Provide basic needs and care. I still think it's a small price to pay for safer streets.

 

[Darat]

A dillemma.


One must take care of the elderly but on the otherhand you don't want to give luxery to prisoners.


What to do?

Don’t see the dilemma - I no more believe I should look after OAPs then I should look after someone in middle age. (I believe I should look after people who need to be looked after.) As for a OAP who is a prisoner I don’t see, apart from practical issues, why they should be treated any different to any other prisoner. (By practical issues I mean something like ankle shackles which would mean a particular OAP couldn’t walk at all (I believe ankle shackles are used in the USA?) and therefore alternatives would have to be used.)


(Edited for spelling mistake.)

 

[AWPrime]

But would you go so far as to give one of them an electric chair lift?
I can imagen that something like that would be handy if one is 80+ yo.

And these people break easily, so shouldn't they get their own section?

 

[Kaylee]

But would you go so far as to give one of them an electric chair lift?
I can imagen that something like that would be handy if one is 80+ yo.

And these people break easily, so shouldn't they get their own section?

I thought senior prisonsers were usually paroled, perhaps for that very reason.