Prisons Want To Release Brain-dead Inmates, Those With Severe Dementia

The Columbus Dispatch Local and State News, Columbus Dispatch
Thu, 03/05/2015 - 12:49pm

Ohio prison officials want state lawmakers to tweak the law enabling judges to approve early release of severely incapacitated inmates, including two who are brain-dead and on life support. The state is paying $1 million a year for medical care for these inmates, many of whom don’t even know they are in prison, said Stuart Hudson, chief of medical services for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

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