1.   Prison reformers have attacked a move to put both young offenders and older inmates into a new prison which opens later this year.

2.   The report attacks the practice of allowing young offenders to mix with older inmates.

3.   At the same time, corrections officials say that some young prisoners endanger the older inmates and are difficult to control.

4.   Because its residents require nearly round-the-clock medical attention, Elm Hall is the only ward in the California prison system where older inmates are segregated.

5.   Building-tenders were mostly older white inmates, who were set up like prefects at a British boarding school to enforce order among other inmates.

6.   Experts say older inmates are much less likely to attempt escape than members of the prison population as a whole.

7.   Guards are given special training in working with older inmates.

8.   Hayes said, however, that Donna had received physical and sexual threats from older inmates in the prison.

9.   Like many older inmates, who have either alienated or lost touch with their families, he has no visitors.

10.   National studies have shown that the risk of older inmates returning to a life of crime diminishes with age, say proponents of alternate care for older prisoners.