MURFREESBORO — The
next “MTSU On the Record” radio program will look at how older inmates deal
with the deaths of friends and relatives as well as their own mortality.
Host Gina Logue’s interview with Ron Aday, a professor of
sociology, will air from 9:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, and from 6 to 6:30
a.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, on WMOT-FM Roots Radio 89.5 and www.wmot.org.
Aday is co-author of “Older Prisoners’ Experiences of Death,
Dying and Grief Behind Bars,” which was published in the September 2016 edition
of the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.
The report paints a grim portrait of a rapidly aging inmate
population who often dare not give expression to their feelings when they learn
that a loved one is dead. While some fear becoming targets if they show any
emotional vulnerability, others try to come to grips with the realization they
might not get the health care they need as they approach the end of their own
lives.
“When I started
studying this decades ago, we didn’t have 30,000 or 40,000 people that were
over age 50,” said Aday. “Now it’s almost 300,000, and in another five years or
so we’re going to have a half a million people over age 50, inmates that have
three or four chronic illnesses.”
To hear previous “MTSU On the Record” programs, go to http://bit.ly/mtsu-otr.
For more information, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or
WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.
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