Nowhere To Go But Jail? • OverCriminalized: Homelessness • BRAVE NEW FILMS: JUSTICE
It is time to stop treating the homeless like criminals. Police have alternatives to incarceration that actually help people -and save money for taxpayers. WATCH MORE: https://www.youtube.com/wa...
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Just another in a recent spike in homeless arrests. 20 percent arrested this month havebeen homeless. You get arrested just because you're homeless. The typical long-term chronic homeless person is being put in jail a lot, because of small petty crimes, open containers,trespassing, loitering, all those kinds of things. Columbia, South Carolina, anothercity criminalizing homelessness. Well where are the homeless people supposed to go? The homeless end up in criminal justice systems, because there hasn't been a better alternative.I served three and a half years at the Utah State Prison, so I've been homeless a littleover a year now.This morning I had got out of jail, sat down like this, the officer hadpulled up on his motorcycle. He told me I ...
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Just another in a recent spike in homeless arrests. 20 percent arrested this month havebeen homeless. You get arrested just because you're homeless. The typical long-term chronic homeless person is being put in jail a lot, because of small petty crimes, open containers,trespassing, loitering, all those kinds of things. Columbia, South Carolina, anothercity criminalizing homelessness. Well where are the homeless people supposed to go? The homeless end up in criminal justice systems, because there hasn't been a better alternative.I served three and a half years at the Utah State Prison, so I've been homeless a littleover a year now.This morning I had got out of jail, sat down like this, the officer hadpulled up on his motorcycle. He told me I ...
