{"id":132095,"date":"2025-09-04T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/132095\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:29:07","slug":"prison-health-care-costs-up-significantly-as-minnesotas-incarcerated-population-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/132095\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison health care costs up significantly as Minnesota’s incarcerated population ages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican Rep. Walter Hudson, who last session introduced a bill<\/a> to toughen penalties for repeat offenders, said he backs a stricter approach to sentencing but is open to \u201creforms that make both fiscal and criminal justice sense.\u201d If someone is so ill they pose little threat and could be treated more affordably outside prison, \u201cthat\u2019s something I\u2019d be willing to consider, because it makes sense on two fronts.\u201d <\/p>\n

Limmer, who is on the public safety committee, said he thinks it is a \u201ccase-by-case\u201d issue when it comes to releasing older inmates in Minnesota. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone is just moving from a prison due to, let\u2019s say, Alzheimer\u2019s and moving to a nursing home, I don\u2019t think the threat is that severe,\u201d he said. \u201cBut … even someone who\u2019s 80 years old who\u2019s been in for, let\u2019s say, a sexual assault case, and they\u2019re considered predatory \u2014 there are times when age has nothing to do with their behavior. They still will look for opportunities to assault someone.”<\/p>\n

Nationally, compassionate release, the process allowing incarcerated people to seek early release due to extraordinary or compelling circumstances such as terminal illness or old age, remains limited despite recent reforms. <\/p>\n

The issue will be in the spotlight this fall when the U.S. Supreme Court hears three cases regarding compassionate release. The cases, which focus on whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission has the authority to require judges to consider changes in law when deciding on release, could define the future of compassionate release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican Rep. Walter Hudson, who last session introduced a bill to toughen penalties for repeat offenders, said he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-132095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}