For recent York City’s most frequently jailed people,the cycle probably goes something like this: You’re homeless, or mentally ill, and addicted to drugs. Maybe all three. Those three factors are so tightly wound together that it’s difficult to bid the causes from the effects. You get picked up for sleeping on the street,and police find a crack rock in your pocket, so you fade to jail. A little while later, and you get out,and a little while after that, you get picked up again. Back to jail it is.
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Source: gawker.com