Detroit: Convicts Trying to Get Back Into Jail; Better Than Freezing or Starving to Death
December 23rd, 2008A different view of Detroit:
Urban Farming Takes Root in Detroit
Via: AP:
It’s a sign of tough times in the Detroit area where outreach experts say recently freed inmates are making a conscious decisions to get thrown back in jail.
The experts say that for some, the relative security of a warm building and three meals a day beats being homeless and hungry in the community.
Detroit has, by many measures, replaced New Orleans as America’s most beleaguered city.
The jobless rate has climbed past 21 percent, tens of thousands of homes and stores are abandoned and the ex-mayor is in jail for a text-messaging sex scandal. Even the pro football team is in tatters — the Lions are within two losses of an unprecedented 0-16 season.
Underlying it all is the near-collapse of the U.S. auto industry, Detroit’s vital source of jobs and status for more than a century.
Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
I was born in Detroit, rad stuff.
I live in the Midwest, and with the winter we’re having here this year, I think I’d prefer jail to having no place to stay, too!