Some potential sources and ideas for the final

Possible thesis statement: American social structure limits disabled and homeless bodies by the living conditions forced upon these people

More specifically I would write about how the homeless shelters are sketchy and often unorganized with specific examples of this. How healthcare is lacking - where they can find it, how they often do better until their medications run out and then they no longer know how to obtain it, etc.



SOURCES:

http://civilrights.findlaw.com/other-constitutional-rights/rights-of-inmates.html - talk about the legality of providing health care and appropriate living conditions in jail for the disabled. (Under the American Disabilities Act)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/saving-normal/201303/prison-or-treatment-the-mentally-ill - proof of all of the amount of mentally disabled in jail - good quote "Today, our largest mental hospitals are our jails."
     - A side note in the article that maybe I should talk about is the criminal representation of these people and how it alters the perception of Americans on what it really means to be mentally disabled.

 - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-26/when-jails-become-mental-asylums - very good statistics to help talk above issue stated above! Definitely going to go more in-depth.

http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/inside-criminal-justice/2012-08-the-prison-health-care-dilemma - debate on whether or not states want to provide the free health care that happens in jail - very interesting !

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16193-more-mentally-ill-becoming-homeless-because-states-wont-help - one side on why mentally disabled people are homless

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.html - more information on why mentally disabled are homeless made by a national census

http://www.wdrb.com/story/22195619/mentally-ill - perfect article discussing how mentally ill go from the streets to jail and back

http://psychiatryonline.org/data/Journals/PSS/3578/1380.pdf - even better article for above, definitely need to deeply read into this one!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-de-santis/homes-not-jails-or-prison_b_598237.html - a debate on why we should just put mentally disabled in a home rather than in and out of jail and how it is twisted



THINGS I NEED TO READ MORE:
http://stonesoupstation.blogspot.com/2008/09/program-that-keeps-homeless-people-out.html - program to keep people out of jails when they are mentally disabled
http://homeless.samhsa.gov/resource/the-stigma-of-homelessness-the-impact-of-the-label-homeless-on-attitudes-toward-poor-persons-21569.aspx - stigma of homelessness