How OITNB Flubbed Compassionate Release

The Daily Beast -  This story on Netflix series Orange Is the New Black's portrayal of an inmate with Alzheimer's quotes Ira Byock, who says "People who are severely debilitated or are in the midst of dying are usually no longer a threat to society, and there is not a compelling social advantage to keeping them in prison." Byock is a professor of medicine and of community and family medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Read more...