Homeless
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How Homeless Encampment Sweeps Can Be Done More Humanely
[ad_1] Jazmine Mapes has spent most of her life on the move. When she was a young child, she shuttled from city to city in Southern California as her parents broke up and got back together. Her dad was abusive, Mapes said, and around age 9, she and her younger brother started bouncing around the…
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Trump Threatens Homeless With Forced Hospitalization
[ad_1] by Daniel Johnson July 27, 2025 Homelessness advocates say that the order does not, in fact, assist the homeless in America’s cities. On July 24, Donald Trump issued yet another executive order, this one attempts to make it easier to forcibly hospitalize homeless people who are mentally ill or who are dealing with addiction,…
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New photos released of Travis Decker, homeless veteran accus…
[ad_1] New photos have been released of Travis Decker as the huge manhunt continues for the Army veteran wanted for allegedly murdering his three young daughters. A new wanted poster for Decker shows the accused triple murderer’s distinctive tattoos and his hair pulled back in a ponytail, while in the clothes he was last seen…
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Homeless People Have Property Rights Too
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. In the years Faith Kearns spent living unsheltered on Phoenix’s streets, she had all kinds of belongings taken during sweeps of the public areas where she…