What is it about?
Despite plain evidence of aging and sickness, parole boards tend to look to the past and imagine what parole applicants were like when they were young and healthy. This keeps old and sick people behind bars. I show the dynamics of this using the last hearing of Susan Atkins.
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Why is it important?
During COVID-19, there was resistance to releasing aging and infirm people, which claimed thousands of lives worldwide; this paper helps understand the dynamics that lead to this resistance.
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This page is a summary of: A Table Before Me in the Presence of My Enemies: Susan Atkins and the Embodiment of Aging and Frailty on Parole, International Criminal Law Review, January 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15718123-bja10096.
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