Law a Nightmare for the Homeless

Surely this is a nightmare. It can’t be that I’m reading the front-page news correctly (“State Justices Uphold Tough Homeless Law,” April 25). It says on the front page that the California Supreme Court has now criminalized homelessness!

Anyone who dares to sleep on public property in the city of Santa Ana, the Orange County seat of government, will be sent to jail. But Orange County is bankrupt. The jails and the jailers are being cut back because we’re broke and can’t pay for these “luxuries.”

If this is reality and not a Kafkaesque nightmare, please stop the world. I want to get off.

EVELYN L. HINTZE

Laguna Hills