Canada’s elder-care crisis grinds away in our jails, too GlobeDebate
The Bowden Institution medium security facility near Bowden, Alta., Thursday, March 19, 2020. Government medical professionals say Canada's jails and prisons don't meet with physical distancing guidelines for COVID-19 and they want as many inmates as possible to be released.Whenever this pandemic abates, it will take some time for us to fully grasp COVID-19′s ravages.
This a demographic trend. A 2011 report from Dr. Zinger’s office warned that life and indeterminate sentences, as well as the increasing prevalence of mandatory minimum sentences, are driving this graying of our prisons. But many federal inmates have been eligible for parole for years and, for whatever reason, have yet to be released. This, despite data that suggests that parolees older than 50 are the least likely to re-offend, and that only about half the inmates over 50 are serving life sentences.
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