From the streets to a prison cell

The link between homelessness and incarceration is disturbing and the answer, according to one expert, is more support and transitional accommodation.

SBS reporter Luke Waters spoke to Dave White, who lived on the street at the age of 15 due to domestic violence at home. What followed was a disturbing and all-too-common cycle of substance abuse crime, homelessness and jail. But there were times when the routine and comparative safety of prison was preferable to life on the streets.