{"id":150191,"date":"2026-03-02T22:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150191\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:17:06","slug":"report-reveals-aging-inmate-population-driving-up-new-york-prison-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150191\/","title":{"rendered":"Report reveals aging inmate population driving up New York prison expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The News10NBC Team details breaking News, Traffic and Weather.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 New York\u2019s prison population is aging, leading to increased costs, according to a new report from the New York Comptroller.<\/p>\n<p>The report revealed that even as the prison population decreased after the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of incarcerated people aged 50 and older reached 24.3% in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>As the age of the incarcerated population rises, so do their healthcare expenses. The state corrections department\u2019s per-person cost of health services increased 138% from 2013 to 2025, reaching $5,850 per person.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the comptroller\u2019s office is urging the state to consider medical parole and compassionate release for older incarcerated individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Read the comptroller\u2019s full report: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/inmates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inmates<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/state-comptroller\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Comptroller<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/aging\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aging<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/healthcare\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">healthcare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The News10NBC Team details breaking News, Traffic and Weather. NEW YORK \u2014 New York\u2019s prison population is aging,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5425,4429,19998,9,11,10,34686],"class_list":["post-150191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aging","tag-healthcare","tag-inmates","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-state-comptroller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}