Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says it’s ‘cruel and unusual’ to criminalize homelessness

My wife also volunteers at a food bank distributing surplus food that is obtained from the produce farms around Yuma AZ.
Last week she came home and told me that for the first time they had shuffled break out. A couple pretty bad I guess. She will carry when she goes down today.
Yesterday, we took Gene to a Dr appointment. He hasn’t been wearing his leg brace because it hurts his leg. The brace is basically a splint so he can walk...awfully like a peg leg. So he walks with his foot folded over and actually walks on his ankle. Yesterday the Dr told him his bone is ready to break through the skin.
And here on this site, we have people making snide and abusive comments about people like Gene who have fallen to misfortune.
And THEN, they’ll proclaim how religious they are.
Got all this money to pay for endless wars and military age illegals, but nothing for these people. The addictive people we can only institutionalize, but the last one third are seniors and can’t afford rents because of costs. Many of them are veterans.
Just remember this..to the so called religious here. What did scripture caution us about strangers? Consider that if you deny someone you may be denying a angel and if you do that..

Here is how to approach these people. And a lot of them are mentally challenged or addicted. So...
DO NOT, NOT, NOT, give them money.
Walk up to them ask them how long they’ve been homeless and ask them if they can tell you about it.
Offer them a bottle of water or a small bag of chips or something
Generally it’s best to pick out those who are in tents or RVs.
Let them talk and keep asking them questions. Let them explain the horrors of public shelters.
Do not carry any money with you and have someone with you.
These people are bitter and some have been driven toward homicidal tendency.

My wife has 35 years in the mental Healthcare field and she really knows how to converse with them.
Volunteer. If only to simply reach out like above. But DO NOT refer them to any government entity. They have been abused so bad by authorities if they even suspect you of being representative of any government organization, you’ll be lucky to walk off without being attacked even if just verbally.
Best is local run independent charity organizations staffed with volunteers who are well learned in these sorts of things.

which is that the decision to punish homelessness should be left to local governments, not the justices.

the issue is not “punish homelessness”, the issue is local government.

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