Incarceration and homelessness are intimately linked. Homelessness is often the result of criminal justice involvement, and in turn, people experiencing homelessness are criminalized for living their private lives in public. Learn more from the resources below about this relationship.
NHCHC Resources
- Law Enforcement & Homelessness: Forging Fruitful Partnerships (2018)
- Stopping the Revolving Door: How Health Centers Can Serve Justice-Involved Populations (2018)
- Overcoming Health & Housing Challenges for Justice-Involved Populations (2018)
- Healthy Release: Health Centers Working to Improve Health and Housing Outcomes for Justice-Involved Populations (2017) Slide Deck 1; Slide Deck 2
- Incarceration & Homelessness: A Revolving Door of Risk (2013)
- Health Reform and Justice-Involved Populations (2012)
- Keeping Homeless People out of the Justice System: The HCH Role (2004)
- Reaching in to Help Out: Relationships Between HCH Projects and Jails (2004) – Nancy McBride, Policy Research Associates, Inc., for the National HCH Council
Additional Resources
- Prison Policy report: Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people (2018)
- Vera Institute: On Life Support: Public Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2014)
- RWJF: Mass Incarceration Threatens Health Equity in America (2019)
- Housing Not Handcuffs: Ending the Criminalization of Homelessness in US Cities: By the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty