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by hey2022 1343 days ago
Do we have any modern-day data on how imprisonment affects homeless people? The people I see on the street who would probably get arrested if homelessness was criminalized are almost all in a very bad physical, mental, and emotional state. How are prisons expected to accommodate this group? Locking up mentally unstable and substance addicted people is not going to benefit private prisons (assuming that they are motivated purely by greed).