No Place for Old Men [TexasObserver.org]
Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill at enormous expense. Benito Alonzo is a short, 140-pound 80-year-old. His quiet-spoken manner, drooping jowls and gray hair, trimmed in a buzz, give him the appearance of a benevolent grandfather, and indeed, he is a grandfather. In thick-framed black eyeglasses, he bears a resemblance to the defanged and aging Henry Kissinger. But Alonzo is neither a celebrity nor a statesman. Hes a convict who has lately grown infirm. He says hes been...