新闻报报看 | 日本东京最大女性监狱“栃木刑务所”，每5位囚犯，就有一位是老人，需要工作人员帮助她们洗澡、进食、走路与服药。监狱的一名警官向媒体表示，对一些年长的囚犯而言，孤独感如此严重，以至于她们宁愿待在监狱里，甚至有人说，如果可以的话，她们会支付每月2万到3万日元，希望能永远住在这里。（主播：黄界錤、林晓倩）
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00:04In general, in everyone's impression, the prison will be locked up in various ways
00:09because of different crimes and prisoners who have been imprisoned.
00:11However, in Tokyo, Japan, the biggest female prison,
00:14the prisoners of the Limu Criminal Investigation Office have a particularly prominent feature.
00:20That is, in this prison, every five prisoners have an elderly person.
00:25The proportion of elderly prisoners is particularly high.
00:28Is it because the local elderly people have a particularly high crime rate?
00:32Or is there a special reason that makes this prison almost another kind of nursing home
00:37and locks up so many elderly female prisoners?
00:40The answer may make many people feel different.
00:43Because many of the elderly women are deliberately committing crimes
00:47just to enter the prison and get three meals,
00:50and there is also free medical care and elderly care.
00:54CNN, a news network in the United States, recently went deep into the prison
00:58to explore the aging situation in the prison.
01:01They found that many elderly prisoners are willing to stay in prison.
01:06Some even prefer to pay for themselves.
01:08Paying 20,000 to 30,000 yen a month, they only hope to live here forever.
01:13It's better than suffering in prison.
01:15They have to face a serious sense of loneliness.
01:17CNN reported that prisoners over 65 years old in Japan
01:21have almost quadrupled from 2003 to 2022.
01:26A prison guard said,
01:28they help these elderly prisoners change their diapers,
01:31take a shower and eat.
01:33It feels more like a nursing home than a prison for prisoners.
01:38Some people come to the prison because it's cold
01:40or because they are hungry.
01:42And those who are sick can get free medical care in the prison.
01:46But once they are released from prison,
01:48they have to pay for themselves.
01:50A 81-year-old female prisoner named Yang Zi said during an interview,
01:55she has been imprisoned for five times because of drug use in the past 25 years.
02:00Every time she comes to the prison,
02:02she will find that the prisoners inside seem to get older.
02:05If someone runs out of money,
02:07they will deliberately do bad things just to go back to prison.
02:10Another prisoner, Qiu Dai, also said
02:13that when she was over 60 years old, she was imprisoned for stealing.
02:16When she was released from prison,
02:18she found that life was more difficult.
02:20She could only rely on a monthly salary
02:22and a very small amount of pension to make a living.
02:25So when she didn't have enough money to live,
02:27she chose to steal again
02:30so that she could be locked up in prison again.
02:33The report pointed out that many prisoners would rather go back to prison
02:36in order to survive,
02:38because they don't have much to rely on outside.
02:41Because they have been in prison for a long time,
02:43they are afraid to face the public
02:45and even their families after being released from prison.
02:47Also, they are too old to work,
02:50so they have to spend the rest of their life in prison.
02:53This has become a tough challenge for the aging Japanese society.
02:58According to data,
03:00over 65-year-old Japanese people
03:02make up 20% of the population living in poverty.
03:05The aging population of Japan is growing rapidly
03:08and is also changing year by year.
03:10The government expects that in 2040,
03:12it will need 2.72 million caretakers
03:15to meet the needs of the aging Japanese society.