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.
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.