Topic: Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch expresses concern for aging prisoners

CNN - 21 days ago
The number of aging men and women in U.S. prisons is growing rapidly, Human Rights Watch said Friday, and it expressed concern for their care...

Prisons' dilemma: Surging numbers of aging inmates

Omaha World-Herald - 21 days ago
Share . In corrections systems nationwide, officials are grappling with decisions about geriatric units, hospices and medical parole as elderly ...

US prison dilemma: growing number of older inmates

NBC 7 Boise (KTVB) - 21 days ago
In corrections systems scross the United States, officials are grappling with decisions about geriatric units, hospices and medical parole as ...

Baby Boom leads to Senior Boom in prisons

Austin American-Statesman - 21 days ago
Share Tweet . The Baby Boom of the 1950s has turned into a Senior Boom for prisons in the United States -a trend that is mushrooming prison health...

Prisons Are Teeming With the Old and Sick; Should We Let them Go?

WSJ.com: Law Blog - 21 days ago
iStockPhoto . We tend to think of prisons as places teeming with angry young (and tattooed) men, ripped from hours of pushing iron in the yard.....

Prison dilemma: surging numbers of older inmates

San Francisco Chronicle - 21 days ago
0 . In corrections systems nationwide, officials are grappling with decisions about geriatric units, hospices and medical parole as elderly inmates ...

New, unneeded obstacles to abortion

Korea Herald - 23 days ago
A federal appeals court this month upheld a Texas law that requires a woman seeking an abortion to undergo a sonogram, forces doctors to describe ...

Iman Sheikh: Crime-policy lessons from the late Amy Winehouse

Full Comment - 112 days ago
As they say on Law & Order, the lab called. They found something. Amy Winehouse, the notorious British jazz sensation who died mysteriously in her...

Today's letters: Even ruthless dictators deserve better …

Full Comment - 115 days ago
Re: NATO's Role In Death Questioned, Oct. 21. It worries me to see the behavior of the so-called freedom fighters. Instead of capturing Muammar...

Today's letters: Hussein, bin Laden and now Gaddafi. Who's next?

Full Comment - 118 days ago
REUTERS/Huseyin Dogan. Gaddafi: Not completely lacking in friends. . Re: The Last Hours Of A Tyrant, Oct. 21. Muammar Gaddafi — dead. Osama bin...