Today, Florida’s new law, prohibiting the feeding of homeless people in public spaces, was overturned. Arnold Abbott, a 90-year-old World War II veteran, resolved to continue to feed the homeless (as he had for two decades) despite the new law. At one point, police approached him and told him to “Drop that plate right now!” […]
Jailing the Mentally Ill: When the Punishment Doesn’t Fit the Crime.
When I was a homeless, sometimes life felt like a high-stakes game. You accidently walk somewhere where you have always been welcome. But now you’re homeless, and the homeless are not welcome there. It’s hard to accept that you’re homeless, and you feel like less than a “normal” person. You want to be treated with […]
