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Advantages Of Collecting Elderly Inmates

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The biggest advantage to releasing elderly inmates from prison is the reduction in cost that it takes to incarcerate them. Statistics show that the recidivism rate is drastically lower with elderly inmates that are paroled. In New York, only seven percent of prisoners between the ages of 50-64 that were paroled recidivated in the first three years (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). The percentage is almost half of that from the age of 65 and up. Another advantage to releasing elderly inmates is for those that are terminally ill. By doing this, it allows the elderly inmate to live out their life in the comfort of their own home or hospice and not in prison or prison hospice. The biggest disadvantage that I see in releasing elderly

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