Growing elderly in prisons is particularly risky. The demands of older prisoners in terms of their physical, emotional, social, and medical health are substantially unmet by the criminal justice system. In nearly half of all jails, there is no clear strategy for caring for elderly inmates. Numerous prisoners are detained because they broke the law. Some inmates bemoan their confinement because they were wrongly linked to a crime that resulted in their detention.
Two elderly inmates from the Kodiaga GK Prison were the subject of a K24 Tv report. The two, Simon Nanyila, 100, and Alfayo Gombe, 89, are inmates at Kodiaga GK. After being found guilty of defilement-related charges, hence they are both currently serving life term sentence.
The expectation of dying in prison makes life without the possibility of parole (LWOP) sentences, according to reports, exceptionally cruel and a catastrophic loss of human dignity. In other facilities, there are also elderly detainees who are now pleading with the government for their release because they believe their lives are about to end.
On the other hand, the two elderly convicts at Kodiaga GK Prison are now humbly pleading with the government to review their terms and free them from prison so that they can go back to their homes and be with their loved ones. They are now a different version of themselves.
Video link, https://youtu.be/DMUIKb6_i6o