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According to Couloute (2018), "Before formerly incarcerated people can address health problems, find stable jobs, or learn new skills, they need a place to live." Is it the responsibility of the criminal justice system to help them do these things? Take a position. Do you believe the criminal justice system (including its laws) has a responsibility to help formerly incarcerated people? First, in your initial post, title your post "The criminal justice system DOES have a responsibility" or "The criminal justice system DOES NOT have a responsibility." Then, using the resources in this module, discuss whether you think the criminal justice system has a responsibility to help formerly incarcerated people become successful members of society. If not, whose responsibility is it? If so, whose specific responsibility is it in the criminal justice system? Include a rationale to support your explanation. I believe that the criminal justice system has a responsibility to help formerly incarcerated people. Personally, I feel like this is the right thing to do, especially after reading the article and seeing statistics of how they are almost 10 times more likely to be homeless than the public. It was already hard as it is being locked up for who knows how long but to be free again and have nowhere to go because of it, is truly sad and unfair. “Being homeless makes formerly incarcerated people more likely to be arrested and incarcerated again, thanks to policies that criminalize homelessness. As law enforcement agencies aggressively enforce “offenses” such as sleeping in public spaces, panhandling, and public urination”, etc (Couloute, 2018). This sentence right there is enough for me to agree that it is the criminal justice system’s responsibility. They have been away for a while and society has already criminalized them, hard to accept them in most places, and then being locked again in offenses that occurred from being homeless. I know they are not perfect, honestly no one is, but they have served their time, and deserve to have some assistance re-entering our society. It does not have to be much, if they can assist them on finding housing, they can figure the rest on their own. Couloute, L. (2018). Nowhere to go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people. Prison Policy Initiative. Retrieved from https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html

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