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Podcast: Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness
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In California, so-called quality of life laws criminalize panhandling, living in cars, and blocking sidewalks. Reporter Sarah McClure chronicles how arresting homeless individuals entangles them in a cycle of poverty and incarceration—and how three groups are breaking the cycle.
This episode talks about some troubling details, which involve gun violence. Some listeners may find it disturbing.
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Program Looks to Stop the Skid Row to Jail Pipeline→
/Crime & justice October 2 ,2017
Prop. 47's effect on jail time, drug rehabilitation is mixed so far→
/Los Angeles Times February 21, 2015
