Prisons

The American prison system is a horrible place, but apparently not horrible enough to stop people from committing crimes. I just read a new article [link] about dementia in prison populations. Caring for a dementia patient is hard enough, caring for a dementia patient who is known to kill people is both hard and expensive. Two or three times as expensive as an average prisoner according to the article.

What can you ethically do with a person who isn't safe to release into public and yet needs constant care? According to the article some prisons are using prisoners to take care of the dementia patients, others have a special high security dementia care facility. Of the two I think the care facility is the better choice, but neither seems ideal.