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Jerome Murdough, a fifty-six-year-old ex-Marine, was looking for a safe place to sleep in 2013, when he was arrested and charged with trespassing. He was fined over two thousand dollars and, due to his insufficient funds, was sent to Rikers Island—where he met his end. Murdough was in the suicide watch section of the prison … Read more
Team #4 – George Carter Brianna Tinnel, Nina Kroeselberg, Hannah Hileman, Lok Ku With the upcoming elections in the city, the raise in taxes to build a homeless shelter is one of the most pressing issues. The candidate George Carter wants to prevent those raises, since everyone should be responsible for their own life choices … Read more
564,708 people in the United States are considered homeless (“2016’s Shocking Homelessness Statistic”). Some unrealistic expectations for a growing homeless population are that it will go away on its own or the homeless will soon get the memo and magically rejoin us as contributing members of society. The problem with these expectations is that the … Read more