The cost varies by state, but an average cost of long-term care in a nursing home is $60,000. That's why it is wise to get Long-Term Care insurance or LTC at or around age 65,â¦ when still active and the cost is low.
More than 100 of California's Death Row inmates have died in the last 40 years. Barely one in 10 were executed.
Plus the prison population is growing older. Human Rights Watch estimates that the number of inmates over 55 increased 500 percent from 1990 to 2009. In California, inmates 55 or older account for 38 percent of the medical bed resources but make up only 7 percent of the prison population. Keeping all these people in prison in California alone costs taxpayers more than $7 billion dollars a year.