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Elder Abuse in Prisons: The Call for Elder Justice and Human Rights Protections Behind Bars
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2013
by Tina Maschi
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2013, page 52
by Tina Maschi, Ph.D., LCSW, ACSW
Filed under:
Classification,
Geriatric Classification,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Statistics/Trends.
Location:
United States of America.
“Prison is a hard place. Pure Hell! As long as you are in khaki, you are considered non-human. The elder suffer the most because there isn’t much for them, us. I have the start of osteoporosis and seeing how some people young and old …
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