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[Narrator] if you kill 14 students

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you'll get a spacious single room and a private bathroom

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while sharing a kitchen with a dozen of your neighbors.

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Whether you'll spend your time in the library, on the rock wall,

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or in the prison's recording studio launching your rap career,

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is yet to be seen.

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[TROM]

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But if you lose your job and have no other means to pay the rent

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you get to stay on the streets

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and hope you will find something to eat.

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Whether you're boiling hot or freezing cold, in light rain or hail storm

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you will have no shelter to protect you from the reality of nature.

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[Journalist] Jay, we're here in Cleveland,Ohio...

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You're homeless.

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[Jay] Yes sir.

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[Journalist] Tell me about it.

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[Jay] It's extremely difficult these days.

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Like many other people I lost my job,

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my home was foreclosed, I ended up being homeless...

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About 2 years now.

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There are groups, support groups, that will help you with certain things

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but it's like you get to run around everywhere you go.

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"See this guy, see this guy, see that guy"

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I would like to see if possible all these

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services and things that are available could be

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condensed into one central group, one bureau

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or whatever you might call it,

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where you can go to get whatever need you...

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you have to a certain place [and]

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not be running over here for this, over there for that,

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back here for this, come back Tuesday, come back Friday...

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You spend your time spinning your wheels not getting what you need.

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[Journalist] How do you survive?

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I survive with a little bit of help from food stamps

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and a few friends that I have helping me here and there

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shelters, churches are nice enough.

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Like this one centrally here.

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Provides you at least a good meal on the weekend...

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and just faith.

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Just keep trying...

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[Narrator] You may not even be able to get food

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from other people in some places

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since feeding homeless people has incredibly being declared illegal

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in many cities in the United States.

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This is the cruel reality we currently live in.

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An estimated 100 million people are homeless worldwide.

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That is about the same size and population as Mexico or Japan

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or almost double the entire population of the United Kingdom, Italy or France.

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They are roughly 10 times more homeless people

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than they are total Greeks in the world.

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If we were to build the country just for homeless people

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it would become the 13th largest country in the world.

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In striking contrast they are currently about 10 million people in jails

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a much smaller number.

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In other words homelessness is a ten times larger world problem than crime.

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So consider this.

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10 million people are provided a room to stay in,

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food and clothes, many have access to healthcare and education

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and sometimes even the Internet, television, recreational areas and much more.

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These 10 million people are provided with all of that

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just because they committed a crime.

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Many of these prisoners are people who have killed other people,

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stolen from other people, damage property

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or in other cases have impoverished millions of others.

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On the other hand 100 million homeless people

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struggle to survive from one day to the next

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just because they couldn't fit into a corrupt and unequal system.

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[Homeless Person] You see big house.

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Maybe somebody come in, maybe kill me.

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I come in 12 o' clock, 1 o,clock.

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because I know after maybe nobody come in.

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6 o'clock I'm up and go.

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Water I put,

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on the back...

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and wash.

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You see this?

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I sleep [in] this way.

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I sleep this way.

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And after the door close, like this

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and this one I put,

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one second I'll show you.

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I put like this.

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And another door is, look,

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what I do to the other door.

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After this one, maybe somebody like kill me.

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And I sleep like this.

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I have one bag as well.

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I put like this,

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and sleep

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like this.

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In England, seven years I sleep on the street.

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Somebody tell me I'll help you, a lot of help you

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after somebody say me, too much help me,

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I'm seven years on the streets.

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Nobody help me, never.

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I don't believe this word.

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[Narrator] Many homeless people intentionally commit small crimes to go to jail

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because it is much better there than on the streets.

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For many in this world being in prison is an advantage.

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Normal prisons sometimes provide better comfort

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than many schools hospitals or houses

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and it is far better to stay in such conditions

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that on the street starving and freezing.

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If I were homeless I may commit crimes only to stay in jail.

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There also exists luxurious prisons

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that offer tennis,fishing, horseback riding, opportunities for learning,

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comfortable rooms, job skill training, air-conditioning, refrigerators,

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karaoke machines, private bathrooms with showers, laundry machines,

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small conference rooms, gyms, state-of-the-art kitchens,

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TVs, the Internet, libraries, recording studios, hours of recreation,

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singing and dancing, jogging trails and much more.

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[Inmate] When I got here, it felt like I was in a dream.

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At first, I was placed in a different house

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from whre I didn't have a great view,

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but when I got down here to the Blues House

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then I could see the houses on the other side at night,

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how the lamps are lighting.

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So this is a wonderful experience.

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They envy me when they come over my house and see this view.

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They usually say "Wow, you have a fantastic view..."

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Well, yes I have.

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[Narrator] Some inmates can stay in free standing two-story homes

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and spend time with their families or live alone.

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And in some prisons, children can live with their incarcerated parents

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as long as the inmates are present at morning and evening roll call.

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[Inmate] When I got here, the whole thing was totally strange,

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because this is much freer.

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This place almost felt like home but I'm from a small village.

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I sleep much better here.

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You don't have to wake up to the opening doors,

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the clanking of the keychain...

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Here I can open the door for myself if I want to.

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Because this whole place is much more closer to real life than the closed prison.

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[Narrator] In 2011 The Geneva Prison

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had more than 40 million dollars pumped into a new wing and refurbishments.

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The spacious triple occupancy cells each include a bathroom

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and could pass for typical UCLA dorm room.

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It is true that there is a fee to pay

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for being incarcerated in one of these luxury prisons,

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but a few bucks a day to live in such luxurious places

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after you raped and killed 3-4 kids is not much.

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And you can pay the fee by working online from inside the prison.

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I'm not suggesting that criminals should be treated in an inhumane manner,

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not at all.

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But I want to emphasize how unfair and unsound

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our way of running society has become.

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Instead of us caring for those suffering from need

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we create comfort for those suffering from greed.

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[Homeless person] Poland as well, I no have family.

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Poland as well, I sleep on the street.

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Poland five years, England seven years,

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twelve years.

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I have brother.

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He's in London and him...

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doing crack.

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I no like him.

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This is my home.

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Just me, only me,

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sleep this way.

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I'm scared maybe somebody come in...

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because...

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downstairs somebody..

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drugs.

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I no like this.

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For me life is very very heavy.

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[Narrator] Billions of dollars are spent

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each year for this system of incarceration.

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Instead imagine investing that

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towards keeping people from committing crimes,

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by simply providing them with what they need.

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For example in the United States in 2007

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around 74 billion was spent on corrections.

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The total number of inmates in 2007 in Federal State and local lockups

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was around 2.5 million people.

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That comes to around $30,600 per inmate.

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Housing the approximately 500,000 people

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in jail in the USA awaiting trial who cannot afford bail

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cost 9 billion dollars a year.

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Most jail inmates are petty nonviolent offenders.

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48% of crimes are violent.

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Murder, manslaughter, rape, sexual assault, robbery and others.

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Drug use accounts for around 22%.

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Poverty meaning burglary, motor vehicle theft, fraud and other property crimes

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accounts for 16.7%.

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And public order meaning weapons, drunk driving, court offenses,

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commercialized vice, morals and decency offenses,

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liquor law violations and other public order offences

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account for around 13%.

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Now imagine how giving 30,600 dollars a year to every US citizen

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would reduce both crime as well as homelessness and poverty.

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So to poor people from Africa, Romania, US

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and to those across the entire world

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who do not have appropriate shelter, food, clothing

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and/or live in very poor conditions

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now there is a solution for you.

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If you commit a crime in this world

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your life will be greatly improved through incarceration.

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If that does not sound wrong then I do not know what does.

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[Journalist] If you had three wishes what would they be?

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[Jay] If I had three wishes, I believe

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first I'll wish that everyone would treat everyone as equals.

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The man that has a $100,000 job is no better person

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than the guy that is picking up garbage on the corner for somebody.

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We're all the same, we're all human beings.

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Why can't we just help each other?

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That would be my first wish.

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And I think if everyone did that,

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I might not even need two more wishes.

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If everybody helped everybody and got along

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We would all be alright.

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[Journalist] Thank you very much for talking about it.
[Jay] Yes sir.

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