{"id":479,"date":"2012-02-01T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T16:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=479"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:18:30","slug":"the-incarcerated-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2012\/02\/01\/the-incarcerated-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incarcerated Elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2012\/02\/elderly_prisoner-thumb-640xauto-5164.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-480\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2012\/02\/elderly_prisoner-thumb-640xauto-5164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dramatic increase in prison population in the U.S. over the past few decades means that there is now an unprecedentedly large geriatric prison population for which prisons do not have the resources to care.\u00a0Last week, Human Rights Watch released a report on this issue using data from nine states and twenty prisons; you can access the full report and the press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/reports\/2012\/01\/27\/old-behind-bars-0\">here<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/aging_in_prison.html\">Colorlines<\/a> also comments and provides some useful infographics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dramatic increase in prison population in the U.S. over the past few decades means that there is now an unprecedentedly large geriatric prison population for which prisons do not have the resources to care.\u00a0Last week, Human Rights Watch released a report on this issue using data from nine states and twenty prisons; you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}