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Age
Disparities relating to age
- Older adults have the lowest rates of re-arrest after release from state prison (Created: 2023)
- Changes in arrest and imprisonment of older adults in the last 30 years (Created: 2023)
- Older people in state prisons are plagued with chronic health conditions (Created: 2022)
- The youngest and oldest people in state prisons (Created: 2022)
- Almost two-thirds of young people in prison are Black or Hispanic (Created: 2022)
- More than 1 in 3 people in state prison were first arrested before their 16th birthday (Created: 2022)
- The "graying" of U.S. prisons (Created: 2020)
- Arrest rates for violent offenses spike before age 24 and then decline (Created: 2019)
- Age of incarcerated people in New York (Created: 2018)
- National imprisonment rate by age, 1993-2013 (Created: 2016)
- Age of Incarcerated People in New York (Created: 2015)
- Age at Commitment in New York Prisons (Created: 2015)
- Older people have less access to computers and the internet at home (Created: 2015)
- Locking up the elderly (Created: 2014)
