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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ariana Baio and Alex Woodward

Supreme Court criminalizes homelessness allowing laws that arrest people who sleep in public areas

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The Supreme Court will allow thecriminalization of homelessness after a majority ruled to allow laws that allow police to ticket, fine or arrest those who sleep in public areas.

On Friday, the conservative majority of the justices disagreed with a group of unhoused people in the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, who argued that a series of laws punishing people for sleeping outside was considered cruel and unusual punishment and in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

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