Living with dementia or Alzheimer’s is very tough, even if you have friends and family around to deal with daily task. Prisons, now, are dealing with an unusually high number of prisoners with dementia and some have even set up dementia wards. Timothy Doherty, a senior officer specialist at F.N.C. Devens, which houses federal prisoners who require medical care, estimates that 90% of the men he oversees don’t know what they did. Some of them don’t even know where they are. What a terribly sad way to end your life.
