• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    If homeless people go to prison in this country, why have I never seen one arrested? Why are they … not in prison but rather sleeping on the street?

    I’m not sure what you’re trying to claim here, as what you’re claiming is obviously false based on my day to day experience in the US

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      8 months ago

      If homeless people go to prison in this country, why have I never seen one arrested?

      this is selection bias, obviously

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      8 months ago

      You have a very simplistic view of what it means for something to be criminalized.