OverCriminalized • Alternatives to Incarceration • FULL DOCUMENTARY • BRAVE NEW FILMS
OverCriminalized profiles three promising and less expensive alternatives to incarceration that may actually change the course of people's lives. It's time to roll back mass criminalization...
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Just another in a recent spike in homeless arrests. 20 percent arrested this month have been 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, another city 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 little over a year now.This morning I had got out of jail, sat down like this, the officer had pulled 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 have been 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, another city 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 little over a year now.This morning I had got out of jail, sat down like this, the officer had pulled up on his motorcycle. He told me I...
