Penitentiaries were never meant to be nursing homes or long-term-care facilities, but Canada’s corrections ombudsman says more prisoners are moving about with walkers and wheelchairs as the population behind bars grows older.
A report released Tuesday by Howard Sapers, the Correctional Investigator, looks at the problems faced by elderly convicts, saying the segment of the incarcerated population that is over the age of 50 increased by 50 per cent in the past decade.
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