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A MAP For Getting Well---St. Francis House in Boston

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

A MAP For Getting Well By Pippin Ross Spirit of Change ?It?s a lot cheaper and safer to help people pull it together, then toss them onto the street or into prison!? ? Fred Smith, MAP founder ?What you?re seeing is ?the look,?? Fred Smith explains. ?The people on the sidewalk outside this building have survived some of the toughest lives imaginable.? It?s lunchtime at St. Francis House on Boylston Street, the epicenter of downtown Boston. A large and regular crowd gathers for the breakfast and lunch that is served to about a thousand people, 365 days a year. Something self-described ?not-for-long? homeless Tom, who stands in line, calls ?the best life-support in town ? free and delicious.? Smith knows that most people who pass by the gathering ?get the creeps? and cross the street to keep their distance from a crowd accurately defined as ?the down and out...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 10, 2010 (boomark / email).