Todd Heisler’s essay on the “Gold Coats”, a group of inmates at the California Men’s Colony, help aging inmates who are suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s. Many of the Gold Coats are serving life sentences.
See the essay on the NYT Lens Blog (Behind Bars and Beginning to Forget).
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