Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization
Open drug scenes[0] are behind the push to end open drug scenes.<p>9% of prisons are private, which is 9% too many, but it&#x27;s the citizens who have to endure open drug scenes who are behind the push to end them.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.karger.com&#x2F;Article&#x2F;Pdf&#x2F;259053" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.karger.com&#x2F;Article&#x2F;Pdf&#x2F;259053</a><p>This problem is described, wrongly, as homelessness, by both advocates for ending open drug scenes, and by activists who view themselves as working on behalf of the unhoused.<p>That&#x27;s not the effect of their activism. The effect of their advocacy is to increase misery. Open drug scenes make the city unsafe. Open drug scenes draw the temporarily homeless into a shadow market of addictions and prostitution.<p>Open drug scenes are bad for everyone who has to be near them, but they are particularly destructive to the mentally ill addicts who constitute them.<p>I&#x27;m sure private prisons would love to turn all of us into literal slaves, but if we reduced the number of them down to the correct 0%, urban residents would still be demanding the end of open drug scenes.<p>They are right to do so. Supporting open drug scenes is supporting misery, harm, assault, theft, overdose, rape.<p>Don&#x27;t support open drug scenes. Make sure your donations to help the unhoused don&#x27;t support open drug scenes (this is difficult).<p>Also, let&#x27;s end private prisons. It was never a good idea and it won&#x27;t get better with time.