Is ticketing homeless people a cruel and unusual punishment?
The question has confounded western cities. The Supreme Court will weigh in
IN 2013 local leaders in Grants Pass, Oregon, held a meeting to brainstorm ideas for how to tackle the city’s growing “vagrancy problem”. A record of that meeting states that participants suggested “driving repeat offenders out of town and leaving them there”, and buying homeless people a bus ticket to anywhere else. “The point”, said Lily Morgan, a city-council member, “is to make it uncomfortable enough for them in our city so they will want to move on down the road.”
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United States April 20th 2024
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- America’s trust in its institutions has collapsed
- Is ticketing homeless people a cruel and unusual punishment?
- The White House unveils a pair of bad policies to woo voters
- Lots of state legislators believe any contact with fentanyl is fatal
- How two small Texas towns became the patent-law centre of America
- Truth Social is a mind-bending win for Donald Trump
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