California Spends $300 Million Each Year Incarcerating Senior Citizens in Women’s Prisons

by Victoria Law

This article was originally published in The Appeal.

After 34 years in prison, 67-year-old 1Cat Reed is suffering from sarcoidosis in the lungs, thyroid disease, sciatica, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes, which she blames on decades of starchy prison food. …