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Abstract: 

The rapidly aging prison population, with its high occurrence of serious and chronic illnesses, multiple comorbidities, and physical and mental disabilities, together with “decades of determinate sentencing practices,” means that there is an increasing number of prisoners who will probably die of age-related and chronic illness while incarcerated. A recent article in the Journal of Correctional Health Care profiled the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) Prison Hospice Program at Angola, a long-running formal model of care that utilizes inmate volunteer programs to provide hospice and end-of-life care to its prisoners. Margaret Moreland reviews the article, “Caring to Learn and Learning to Care: Inmate Hospice Volunteers and the Delivery of Prison End-of-Life Care,” by Kristin G. Cloyes, Susan J. Rosenkranz, Katherine P. Supiano, Patricia H. Berry, Meghan Routt, Sarah M. Llanque, and Kathleen Shannon-Dorcy.

Keywords: End-of-Life Care in Prison

Affiliations:  1: Contributing Editor.