Older Adults and Reentry: "Pretend Freedom"

At least 17,000 adults age 50 and older have been released from Illinois prisons since 2014, and thousands more are in line to come out soon. Older adults are less likely to reoffend than their younger counterparts but face more hurdles to successful reentry.

A new study has shown that among incarcerated women, many have to trade or barter to access menstrual hygiene products. The study, which...

State and federal governments spend increasingly more money on consistently inadequate healthcare for their growing populations of...

The number of elderly Americans serving time in prison has skyrocketed in recent decades. In 1991, for example, just 3% of the men and...