Poverty: The Untold Story.Essay Preview: Poverty: The Untold Story.Report this essayPoverty? Do you know the meaning of this word. I am sure you think you do. However is it possible to understand the meaning of poverty if you have never endured it. Poverty is different for many people. Everyone has a different definition of the word, everyone looks at those who endure it in a different light.
To many those who endure poverty are lazy, stupid , or insane. This is not the case. The homeless are all homeless for different reasons. Many are suffering due to the Deinstitutionalization Movement that occurred in the early 1970s. Geraldo Rivera , a budding journalist at the time, took cameras into the mental hospitals across the country. What he found there was horrible. There were naked men an women bound to walls with chains and ropes. There were windows broken out and no heat for the winter months. These institutions were places where people who were thought to have mental problems and disabilities were sent to recover. After Rivera exposed these places many were closed. However what we did not think about was what would happen to the unfortunate men and women who had been in these places for so long.
In 2003, the Boston Globe published a article about a man by the name of “Racine Johnson” who had been incarcerated for over five years in Ohio. Though the “man” was in solitary confinement, at one point he reportedly told his wife in her room, “I’m not going to stay, if that helps.” The article was quickly picked up by the Boston Globe in 2002. At least he managed to get a stay in Ohio in the first place.
The second time around he was a young lawyer trying to raise a family. He has made about $35,000 a year working with a group of ex-prisoners that he has called the “Justice & Peace Corps.”
And what, exactly, do we know about what actually happened down there? The most striking thing to see is the fact that this was just one of many places where people were killed by the “Deinstitutionalization Movement”:
The Deinstitutionalization Movement is a movement to end systematic institutionalization of the mentally ill in and on American homes, cities, and homes. According to a 2012 report from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the United States has committed more than $3.3 billion to reduce institutionalization, both in and outside correctional systems, in all forms since 1972. In 2006, the United States spent $15.8 billion trying to end institutionalization within the correctional system. As part of the efforts that the United States put behind its efforts to end the institutionalization of mentally ill people in and on American jails and prisons, an estimated 20 percent of federal inmates nationwide were involuntarily hospitalized for addiction, an epidemic that was linked to over 2,000 deaths. The United States has already done more than 20 percent of this over the past three decades, including the end of the War on Drugs in 2000, of which nearly one in every four Americans is currently incarcerated. As a result, more prisoners are incarcerated, more people are placed in mental institutions, and less of these people are actually released and rehabilitated. As a general matter, nearly one-third of prisoners in the United States are facing the loss of their health insurance at some time in their lifetimes. It can take as long as one to five decades for the United States to get a hold of enough health insurance to cover everyone. And that’s assuming we don’t use the government’s death toll from the war on drugs as an excuse to try to fix more of this crisis.
It does seem odd to see something like this coming out of nowhere given the size of this problem right now. People are being sent to places like this? You don’t believe me? In that same article the Huffington Post spoke to people in the inner city who had the right to be interviewed. But instead of responding they said that we should just move on. Because this is nothing short of a problem that will be solved. I would imagine that many of you would agree.
Not long after the Boston Globe story came out, it went viral. Many people started to realize that the police had broken the law. Some local media just asked everyone to keep an eye out for new, bad and frightening signs, until the authorities really hit it full steam. These are the guys who wrote
In 2003, the Boston Globe published a article about a man by the name of “Racine Johnson” who had been incarcerated for over five years in Ohio. Though the “man” was in solitary confinement, at one point he reportedly told his wife in her room, “I’m not going to stay, if that helps.” The article was quickly picked up by the Boston Globe in 2002. At least he managed to get a stay in Ohio in the first place.
The second time around he was a young lawyer trying to raise a family. He has made about $35,000 a year working with a group of ex-prisoners that he has called the “Justice & Peace Corps.”
And what, exactly, do we know about what actually happened down there? The most striking thing to see is the fact that this was just one of many places where people were killed by the “Deinstitutionalization Movement”:
The Deinstitutionalization Movement is a movement to end systematic institutionalization of the mentally ill in and on American homes, cities, and homes. According to a 2012 report from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the United States has committed more than $3.3 billion to reduce institutionalization, both in and outside correctional systems, in all forms since 1972. In 2006, the United States spent $15.8 billion trying to end institutionalization within the correctional system. As part of the efforts that the United States put behind its efforts to end the institutionalization of mentally ill people in and on American jails and prisons, an estimated 20 percent of federal inmates nationwide were involuntarily hospitalized for addiction, an epidemic that was linked to over 2,000 deaths. The United States has already done more than 20 percent of this over the past three decades, including the end of the War on Drugs in 2000, of which nearly one in every four Americans is currently incarcerated. As a result, more prisoners are incarcerated, more people are placed in mental institutions, and less of these people are actually released and rehabilitated. As a general matter, nearly one-third of prisoners in the United States are facing the loss of their health insurance at some time in their lifetimes. It can take as long as one to five decades for the United States to get a hold of enough health insurance to cover everyone. And that’s assuming we don’t use the government’s death toll from the war on drugs as an excuse to try to fix more of this crisis.
It does seem odd to see something like this coming out of nowhere given the size of this problem right now. People are being sent to places like this? You don’t believe me? In that same article the Huffington Post spoke to people in the inner city who had the right to be interviewed. But instead of responding they said that we should just move on. Because this is nothing short of a problem that will be solved. I would imagine that many of you would agree.
Not long after the Boston Globe story came out, it went viral. Many people started to realize that the police had broken the law. Some local media just asked everyone to keep an eye out for new, bad and frightening signs, until the authorities really hit it full steam. These are the guys who wrote
In 2003, the Boston Globe published a article about a man by the name of “Racine Johnson” who had been incarcerated for over five years in Ohio. Though the “man” was in solitary confinement, at one point he reportedly told his wife in her room, “I’m not going to stay, if that helps.” The article was quickly picked up by the Boston Globe in 2002. At least he managed to get a stay in Ohio in the first place.
The second time around he was a young lawyer trying to raise a family. He has made about $35,000 a year working with a group of ex-prisoners that he has called the “Justice & Peace Corps.”
And what, exactly, do we know about what actually happened down there? The most striking thing to see is the fact that this was just one of many places where people were killed by the “Deinstitutionalization Movement”:
The Deinstitutionalization Movement is a movement to end systematic institutionalization of the mentally ill in and on American homes, cities, and homes. According to a 2012 report from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the United States has committed more than $3.3 billion to reduce institutionalization, both in and outside correctional systems, in all forms since 1972. In 2006, the United States spent $15.8 billion trying to end institutionalization within the correctional system. As part of the efforts that the United States put behind its efforts to end the institutionalization of mentally ill people in and on American jails and prisons, an estimated 20 percent of federal inmates nationwide were involuntarily hospitalized for addiction, an epidemic that was linked to over 2,000 deaths. The United States has already done more than 20 percent of this over the past three decades, including the end of the War on Drugs in 2000, of which nearly one in every four Americans is currently incarcerated. As a result, more prisoners are incarcerated, more people are placed in mental institutions, and less of these people are actually released and rehabilitated. As a general matter, nearly one-third of prisoners in the United States are facing the loss of their health insurance at some time in their lifetimes. It can take as long as one to five decades for the United States to get a hold of enough health insurance to cover everyone. And that’s assuming we don’t use the government’s death toll from the war on drugs as an excuse to try to fix more of this crisis.
It does seem odd to see something like this coming out of nowhere given the size of this problem right now. People are being sent to places like this? You don’t believe me? In that same article the Huffington Post spoke to people in the inner city who had the right to be interviewed. But instead of responding they said that we should just move on. Because this is nothing short of a problem that will be solved. I would imagine that many of you would agree.
Not long after the Boston Globe story came out, it went viral. Many people started to realize that the police had broken the law. Some local media just asked everyone to keep an eye out for new, bad and frightening signs, until the authorities really hit it full steam. These are the guys who wrote
With no where to go and no one to ask for help they became homeless. This is one reason that many people became homeless. Others include paycuts, layoffs, and deaths. We should not have a pre-judged view of these people. Do you think that these people want to be homeless.
Poverty does not affect just the homeless however. Another group that is effected would be those who live in the ghettos of the inner cities such as New York and Boston. In these places the families, the entire area is very poor. According to a 2003 study done by Boston University Americans are living in Poverty if they make less than $19,333.00 a year. In these Ghettos many children resort to gang violence and drugs to take care of themselves. How can they change it? Many cannot . Experts say that all they have to do is work hard and look for money to get scholarships so that they can move away from the poverty. How can they do this when they do not go to