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True An Innovative Program For Elderly Inmates

Research suggests that non-expert individuals are typically overconfident; they overestimate the quality of their own abilities or knowledge (Svenson 1981, Weinstein 1980) and state extreme probabilities more often than they should. Work in economic theory, particularly with business-related forecasting, has provided further support for this behavioral phenomenon (Camerer and Lovallo, 1999). The reasons for overconfidence when answering trivia questions are a subject of intense debate among decision theorists (Ayton and McClelland 1997). Three prominent explanations have emerged. One argument is that it is an illusion created by asymmetrically misleading items in investigation methods (Juslin 1994, Gigerenzer et al. . | CT Feature An Innovative Program For Elderly Inmates By Mary T. Harrison Hey Batter Batter Hit the ball Whatsamatter ya rippled or blind .1 Mnutam NewtLs irĩfdiiHíií Center benior Structural Livinti program You oughta know Mac pushed my wheelchair beh get outta the way Artwork and photos courtesy Nevada Department of Corrections 46 December 2006 Corrections Today you ve ore. Now This banter was heard recently during a prison wheelchair softball game at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center NNCC in Carson City. Thirty inmates members of a structured living program for elderly inmates were engaging in one of the program s most popular activities. The program True Grit is the first of its kind in Nevada and attempts to deal with the special needs of the rapidly increasing population of geriatric inmates. A Proven Need Nationally the number of inmates in state and federal correctional institutions increased approximately 750 percent from 1979 to 1997.1 The reasons for this massive increase include an aging baby boomer population bulge longer life expectancy and lengthy mandatory sentences and life without sentences for second-or third-felony offenses.2 The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the U.S. population will continue to age at the current rate until 2010 and then the rate will accelerate. The U.S. prison population is expected to mirror this trend. In 2005 the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 12 percent of male inmates incarcerated nationwide were older than 50.3 Based on data that indicate the average inmate isphysiologically about 10 years older than a cohort of never-incarcerated men the Department of Justice has stated that age 50 is the appropriate benchmark to indicate a senior inmate. 4 Reviews of data on inmate cost indicate that the cost of incarcerating a senior inmate is approximately three times that of a younger man.5 Several states including Florida 6 Georgia 7 Pennsylvania Oklahoma8 and Maryland 9 have issued position papers or statements