11.   Older inmates also turn out to have committed more violent crimes than their younger counterparts.

12.   One solution would release older inmates from prison and confine them to house arrest, where they would be monitored electronically.

13.   The staff offers bingo tournaments, a horticulture program and universal exercise machines, all intended to keep older inmates active and to slow the aging process.

14.   The state does not have a specific geriatric unit but holds older inmates according to their health conditions.

15.   There are also heavy concentrations of older inmates in Chillicothe and Grafton, Ohio.

16.   They worry about protecting the juveniles from physical and sexual assaults by older inmates, and they often find the younger prisoners harder to discipline, Gable said.

17.   After repeated beatings and sexual abuse by older inmates, Rodney Hulin Jr. hanged himself in his Texas cell.

18.   The children survived mainly due to the protection of older inmates, who slipped them extra food and clothing and kept them off especially brutal work details.

19.   One excerpt shows a warder bringing a young prisoner to an older inmate for sex.