There are hospice programs in penitentiaries. It’s an accommodation for those who will die behind bars in the United States, the country recorded to have the world’s largest (by capita) and oldest prison population because the system isn’t designed to let incarcerated people out.
That’s a circumstance the Nature of the Crime directors Ricki Stern and Jesse Sweet mention among the reasons they explore New York state’s parole programs in their film, asking fundamental questions about the prison system’s purpose – whether it’s meant to rehabilitate or lock people away forever.
