Are Older People Going to Prison More?

Prison populations are getting older overtime, not really because of long sentences, but because older people are going to prison more. A prison takes two years off of your life expectancy per every year that yeare incarcerated. The scale of incarceration is actually so great that this has had an overall impact on life expectancy in the us. In 20 16, christopher wildman estimated that a us Life expectancy would have increased by more than five years if not for mass incarceration. But because of mass incarceration, because we incarcerate so many people in these institutions where you're much more likely to die prematurely, the us. Life expectancy only increased three point five years over that time. So what no more detail