Re:Prosecuting homeless for sleeping outside may violate U.S...
by refurb on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:18PM
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And if they aren’t interested in rehabilitation?
Re:Prosecuting homeless for sleeping outside may violate U.S...
by peterwwillis on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:46PM
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Pay for their lodging and food, as long as they never leave the building, and force them to be very close roommates with gang members?
Basically the question is: what do you do with a crazy person, or someone who has relegated themselves to squalor?
The answer for both is that we continue to try to rehabilitate. That means not just throwing them in a hole. A simple example would be to take the money we spend on incarcerating them and spend it on multifaceted programs.
Prison should not be a panacea. Reminder: the US incarcerates more people than the next two biggest encarcerating countries combined, even though our population is 1/5th the size. Either our people are the scum of the earth, or we just find locking people up an acceptable solution to most problems.
Re:Prosecuting homeless for sleeping outside may violate U.S...
by Broken_Hippo on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @11:26PM
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Not being interested in rehabilitation isn't an excuse to let folks starve on the streets. Go ahead and make sure folks have a room with a lockable door and food available to them. Keep folks as safe and healthy as possible. Keep offering ways to improve life.
Ok, but keep in mind that many of them probably turned to these as an escape from the reality of their condition and are now addicted. Perhaps a better thing to do would be to help rehabilitate them instead of vilifying them as addicts?