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You seem to have overlooked: - Community service - Fines - Curfews - Binding-over - Suspended sentences Those are the alternatives that leap to mind; i'm

• bombcar 4y ago
  We're assuming a homeless person who is uncooperative; why would they suddenly start cooperating over fines, et al?
  • denton-scratch 4y ago
    They could be a law-abiding homeless person. You know: someone like you, maybe, that lost their home to their wife in a nasty divorce. Or maybe they comply with the court's orders, because they don't want more severe sanctions? Fact is, some states seem to manage without throwing people in the can as soon as possible; some states use incarceration as a last resort. [Sorry, upthread person; I wasn't trained on US constitution. As far as I'm concerned, jail, prison, penitentiary, reform school are all the same as incarceration. At least for the purposes of this discussion.]
    • bombcar 4y ago
      Those people I would assume aren't the ones refusing help and pissing in the corner of their provided house.