Ohio spent $222 million — about $4,371 per inmate — to provide medical care for the incarcerated in 2010, the Dayton Daily News reports. About $28 million of its total spending was on prescriptions, the newspaper reports. Prisoners also are getting older. The number of inmates age 65 or older has crested above the 1,000 mark, the newspaper reports. Some inmates with cancer have cost the state more than $250,000 a year, the newspaper reports. Since 2003, the state has hired "hundreds of medical staff" and has built new medical facilities for prisoners because of a 2003 class action law suit, the newspaper reports…

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