A Venn diagram showing some of the ways in which homelessness, mental illness, substance use disorder, and criminalization and incarceration overlap.

Data Source: Prison Policy Initiative, Beyond the Count and Nowhere to Go; Pew Charitable Trusts, More than 1 in 9 People With Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders are Arrested Annually (2023); Laurence Roy et al., Criminal Behavior and Victimization Among Homeless Individuals with Severe Mental Illness: A Systematic Review. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)

This graph originally appeared in Seeking shelter from mass incarceration: Fighting criminalization with Housing First.

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