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F ELDERLY PRISONERS

In part, the preceding discussion explained why the proportion of elderly persons in the prison population is increasing. Four types of incarcerated persons account for the growth in the elderly segment in the American prison population (Chaneles, 1987). The first type is the chronic offender, who, because of one major sentence or a series of shorter sentences, grows old in prison (Newman, Newman, and Gerwitz, 1984). The

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