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Inhumane: America’s Prisoners, Aging and Sick are Dying Behind Bars

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America’s prisons have an exploding population of old (and sick) prisoners who get shoddy medical care and often spend their last days behind bars, Emma Quail writes in the nonprofit investigative news site City Limits.

One prisoner profiled by City Limits, a 67-year-old named Phil, died at an upstate New York prison hospice after doctors allegedly delayed biopsying a spot on his lung until five months after it was originally found.

Read the whole story here.

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