This chapter focuses on short-term secure facilities that house older inmates, such as jails; community-based correctional facilities in which various types of treatment are used, such as educational programs and drug and alcohol counseling; and long-term correctional facilities. Various types of long-term correctional facilities in which older inmates are likely to be housed include maximum security prisons, facilities that focus on special problem inmates such as those focusing on providing mental health counselling and special facilities designed to accommodate older offenders, many who are likely to have multiple problems relating to either drug or alcohol abuse, mental health, or physical handicaps. The profiles of older criminal who are incarcerated reveal that some of them have entered prison as a young person and because of the severity of their crimes had been given long sentences and thus have literally grown old in prison. Others are situational offenders, in that their current offense was very serious, for example, murder, and they were sentenced to prison rather than given a community-based sentence, such as probation.