What horrible places.

The douchey right leaning old hermit fuck I'll inevitably become in another 40 years thinks this is a great idea!

Never mind what it'll cost, it's worth it because we can't let these people suffering poverty and substance abuse be a visible reminder or our increasingly unequal society.

Throwing the homeless in prison is just the South's way of providing healthcare for the poor.

God dammit, this sucks.

"They've had 20 years to fix the problem [homelessness] and it has only gotten worse..."




that's it. just shoot the rich and let the homeless have their homes.

Every day it seems more and more like some states are engaged in a competition to see which can reach some kind of feudal theocratic dystopia the fastest.

This is against everything I have ever believed or will ever believe in.

I believe the act of criminalizing homelessness has everything to do with the for profit prison system that wants it in writing that 80% of all of the jails they purchase must be guaranteed to be filled. How do you guarantee something of that nature, legally? You must have a steady stream of prisoners.

I find this to be a form of slavery. I am so tired of being this incensed.

This is very close to how the South Park homeless episode began. The homeless no longer are distributed throughout the world, they become a migratory commune moving from town to town asking for change.

I'm sure that this law will be applied to all equally, especially the black people.

I was pretty sure I'd read a ridicuous news item about Columba SC recently, and here it is

http://tinyurl.com/kw5684p

This smells like a first step in a sci-fi-dystopian-future story. Maybe not "Soylent Green." "Hobie-Os" has a much nicer ring to it.

But seriously, this is terrible.

This isn't really news. Many cities already have these laws in place, and the ones that don't typically have unwritten policies to the same effect. Also, the reporters' assessment of the shelter as a "prison" is more than a little alarmist. They offer as support for this contention the fact that the homeless need permission to leave the shelter; this is actually standard procedure in most homeless shelters that I know of. The reason behind this has got to do with the limited number of beds; only so many homeless people can stay in any given shelter on any given night. The shelter managers don't want to turn away the needy, only to have a half dozen people leave during the night.

So what exactly is the "relocate option"? A free bus ticket to Charleston?

This is the worst solution to the homeless problem. Fucking goddamn Republicans.