“Consider how likely you were to make reckless decisions in your 20’s, and compare that to your 50s: The difference, science tells us, is about impulse control and brain development. A study last year from the Justice Policy Institute found that only 3 percent of elderly prisoners are arrested again after their release. Most people age out of crime. Yet we pay as much as $60,000 annually – twice the cost of the average prisoner – to keep older felons behind bars.“
NJ.com
July 28, 2019