The homeless advocates behind this lawsuit also assume that street life is somehow preferable to jail or prison, where occupants are provided 3 square meals a d

The homeless advocates behind this lawsuit also assume that street life is somehow preferable to jail or prison, where occupants are provided 3 square meals a day, warm and clean clothing, a clean dedicated space to sleep, and all the free health services you need. In Norway or Sweden maybe, not in the US. 3 Square meals a day?! Forget the piss poor quality and lousy portions, they’re not serving three of anything https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/07/what-s-in-a-prison-meal https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/07/what-s-in-a-pr... Inmates at the Gordon County Jail in Calhoun, Ga. — according to a preliminary investigation by human rights attorneys last fall — are starving. The two meals a day weren't enough to sustain them, and some reportedly resorted to eating toothpaste and toilet paper. Inmates at the Montgomery County Jail in New York alleged that meager portions led to increased violence among the inmates; one inmate lost 90 pounds in less than six months. And a group of prisoners at the Schuylkill County Prison in Pennsylvania filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming the portions they received are “not even enough to fill a 5-year-old child.” https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/prison-food-sickness-america/549179/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/prison-fo... Then again maybe less food is better than... In August, the Detroit Free Press reported that a prison kitchen worker was fired for refusing to serve rotten potatoes. You can find nightmarish stories about maggots in national outlets like U.S.A. Today. They do get clothes, of course they tend to already have clothes, but “clean dedicated place to sleep” is just... what year do you think it is? The prison system is very overcrowded, and regional jails are the worst. Getting banged up for a few days on a misdemeanor isn’t putting you in a prison, but a shared cell in a local jail. Plus, a huge number of homeless people are memtallly ill, and being thrown into a chaotic situation with a bunch of offenders of varying severity is not the best outcome. You may not give a toss about homeless people, you may want them in prison, but stop pretending that it’s good for them. Plus it’s wasteful and expensive, a burden of non-violent people in an already overcrowded system, and does nothing to solve the underlying problems. The last thing we need is to further bloat our correctional system.