Dennis Sochor has become the oldest-ever prisoner executed in Florida, as US death row populations age ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed all the States and Union Territories to formulate and notify a comprehensive policy ...

The Supreme Court ordered states and Union Territories to create a policy for releasing elderly and terminally ill prisoners.

Elderly prisoners are the least dangerous group of people behind bars but the most expensive to incarcerate. Yet despite this truth, the number of elderly prisoners is skyrocketing. Harsher sentences ...

The unique obstacles that elderly prisoners face include declining health, isolation, and the financial burden of care. Prisons are frequently unprepared to meet the medical and psychological needs of ...

It is not often that as a society we have the opportunity to achieve a higher moral standard and save money simultaneously. The plight of elderly, non-violent offenders now held in the federal prison ...