Wellness

An Intimate Look at Aging Prisoners in the United States

We often think of prison as a transformative place--young men enter its doors criminals and exit older, chastened individuals. But what happens towards the end of a longer sentence? Getty Images photographer Andrew Burton visited state prisons in California in December to document the daily lives of aging prisoners, whose numbers have increased by 500% in the last several decades. Frank Fuller, age 66, walks down the hall to his cell at California Men's Colony prison in this Dec 20, file photo.
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May 06, 2014, 2:35 PM

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