By Kevin Sieff
Washington Post
Just before lunch time at Deerfield Correctional Center, 60 men in wheelchairs stream across the prison courtyard and into the mess hall, followed closely by a group of inmates hobbling on canes, leaving the blind and the senile to shuffle inside last. Not far from this daily migration -- dubbed the “wheelchair brigade” by prison employees -- are two rooms full of elderly inmates too weak to make it outside.
Deerfield, Virginia’s only geriatric prison, is where the state’s inmates are sent to grow old. They’re transferred to this facility in Capron, near the North Carolina border, when they’re too weak to stand or feed themselves, when they don’t have much time left.
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