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Well, yes, if you "solve" your homelessness problem by housing homeless people in jail, your system is not a success.[/quote]

There is no law against homelessness. There is a law against public intoxication. Big difference, although there is obviously some overlap between the two.[/quote]

You were just telling us about Indiana's effectiveness in reducing the population of homeless people by locking up homeless people.[/quote]

I pointed out that Indiana has a chronic homelessness rate that was 1/38 the level of DC's in 2018, and that one of the likely factors was that Indiana has very strong public intoxication laws. I think it would be appropriate for DC, Virginia, and Maryland to incarcerate intoxicated people who are passed out on park benches, sidewalks, and other public places. As a previous commenter noted, sometimes an arrest for public intoxication can save peoples' lives. I would also expect that the threat of incarceration for public intoxication would cause other people to choose not to go down the path of addiction. Now, if you are upset with the idea of jail, maybe you could think of it instead as a publicly-funded studio apartment.

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