Category Archives: Legislation
Criminal Justice Bill: Criminalisation of Homelessness Radio 5 Live Interview
A new criminal justice bill seeks to further criminalise homelessness in the United Kingdom despite a vote to repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824, a 200-year old law that means “vagabonds” caught for the crime of homelessness can be fined or imprisoned, or subject to other such derogatory punishments. I was convicted of the crime of…