Over the last ten years, one county in Florida has spent more than $5-million putting homeless people in jail.
Here's the stupid: It was the same 37 people.
The council of Ocheola County allowed local law-enforcement to arrest and imprison the same 37 people 1,250 times, at a cost to local taxpayers of more than $100 each time, for minor offences like panhandling and sleeping in public places.
For perhaps half that amount the Council could have acquired a suitable piece of Real Estate and given those people a real home, not a criminal record.
It's news like this that makes the compulsion to do our homelessness project just unbearably worse...
