At America's Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly
At America's Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly
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以美国为代价：大规模监禁老年人
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2012
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G. Schotter
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Inimai M. Chettiar;W. Bunting;G. Schotter
老年囚犯的监禁费用是普通囚犯的两倍，对社会的危害很小，但美国的老年囚犯人数正在爆炸。我们的极端量刑政策和越来越多的无期徒刑实际上已经把我们的许多惩教设施变成了名副其实的疗养院--纳税人正在为此买单。这种越来越多的因低级别犯罪和较长刑期而被关押的老年囚犯是20世纪80年代和90年代“坚韧打击犯罪”和“禁毒战争”政策的邪恶产物。鉴于美国目前的过度监禁流行病和持续的经济危机，立法者应该考虑实施假释改革，释放那些不再构成足够的安全威胁，以证明他们继续监禁的老年囚犯。美国公民自由联盟的一份新报告，“在美国的监狱：老年人的大规模监禁”，提出了一些数据驱动的调查结果和改革的建议。
Elderly prisoners are twice as expensive to incarcerate as the average prisoner and pose little danger to society, yet the population of elderly prisoners in the United States is exploding. Our extreme sentencing policies and a growing number of life sentences have effectively turned many of our correctional facilities into veritable nursing homes — and taxpayers are paying for it.This increasing warehousing of aging prisoners for low-level crimes and longer sentences is a nefarious outgrowth of the “tough on crime” and “war on drugs” policies of the 1980s and 1990s. Given the nation’s current overincarceration epidemic and persistent economic crisis, lawmakers should consider implementing parole reforms to release those elderly prisoners who no longer pose sufficient safety threats to justify their continued incarceration.A new ACLU report, “At America's Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly,” makes a number of data-driven findings and issues recommendations for reform.