![]() "Dying inside, and especially not getting the pain medication.… You have this old man, crawled up like a baby and crying, being in pain. Haley says he's seen how hard it is to grow old behind bars - let alone die there.ĭan Haley, founder of Haley House, says he's made it his life’s mission to help offenders. 'They don't want to die alone'ĭan Haley - the namesake and founder of Haley House - is well-versed with the prison system.Ī community chaplain, he's made it his life's mission to help offenders he started by offering Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to prisoners in the Peterborough area. Inmates' needs are continually reviewed and access to accommodations, like canes or wheelchairs, are adopted as required, the agency said. It's just so scruffy."įor its part, the CSC said "the process for managing pain within CSC is the same as in the community" and an inmate's medical history is first assessed. "Living between pain medication is a terrible thing, you know. Now on parole with severe health issues, he says people like him deserve compassion despite the crimes they've committed.Īnd he said he wasn't given the painkillers for as long as he felt he needed them. Out In The Open 11:42 'Grace is something that we often don't deserve, but which lends itself to us' Cliff Strong spent more than 30 years in prison. ![]() "You end up with guys that are sitting inside, that are granted parole - but they can't leave, because there isn't anywhere to go," said Morgan, a retired, 32-year veteran of the Peterborough Police Service. "Nobody stepped back and said, 'Hey, we got these older guys, what are we going to do with them? When they get sick, when they go out and we still have to monitor them, where are we going to put them?' ![]() "The system is trying to play catch-up," said Jeff Morgan, Haley House's casework manager. In response to the number of aging offenders behind bars and on parole, the OCI and the Canadian Human Rights Commission are set to release a report later this fall on what they call "the systemic discrimination of aging and elderly offenders." 'There isn't anywhere to go' When corrections tells me, 'We'd love for these individuals to be released, but there's just no capacity,' I tell them, 'You create that capacity.' - Ivan Zinger, Canada's correctional investigatorĪccording to the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI), one in four federal inmates behind bars is 50 or older - which classifies them as older offenders because serving time can add about 10 years to a chronological age. And, to me, it represents the future of corrections," said Ivan Zinger, Canada's correctional investigator. " is basically one of only two that I'm aware of that caters to this inmate population.
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