Aging in Prison A look at nations oldest inmate population

Apr. 2 — COLDWATER — Five days a week, eight hours a day, office staff at Lakeland Corrections Facility work the phones, scheduling medical appointments for the 1,400 men incarcerated there who need to see a specialist. Lakeland is a dormitory-style, lower security prison known within the Michigan Department of Corrections as a go-to facility to house and care for elderly men serving long sentences. “We have 24 prisoners here over 80 years old,” says Warden Bryan Morrison. “Their sentences can be 20, 30 years or more. Occasionally, you do get somebody that comes to prison later in life, at…