The United States has the highest rates of elderly prisoner incarceration in the world. Historically over time this poli-socio-economic policy making practice has resulted in the national crisis called aging people in prison. Men and women are spending decades in prison up to 30, 40, 50, and even 60 years or more separated from parents, children, families, and communities. A person incarcerated in their youth and over time aging in prison creates broken families and a fractured society with little hope for those left to languish and die in prison. We as students are an asset to Aging People in Prisons because of the numbers in which we can mobilize. We will be writing letters for the compassionate release of women who have been given life sentences in Pennsylvania. Here is the Women Lifers Resume Project website: www.wlrppa.org This will give you an idea of what they have been doing while in prison. You will receive DYSD credit as well as 1 hour for this project