Claim: "The job  lowers your life expectancy . . . Metropolitan did a study in, I believe it was 1998, and the life expectancy was 58."
Fact-check: Rhode Island corrections union president David Mellon says correctional officers' life expectancy is 58 years
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2011-11-16T00:00:00