Sounds like an idea George W Bush would have been proud of .
Apparently the probation office in a county in the UK have been giving out tents to homeless ex-offenders to sleep in, when they have been unable to find them any overnight accommodation.
Nottingham probation office did it a few times last year, and expect to do it even more often this year, as cuts deepen.
Their logic is that if someone leaves their office with nowhere to sleep that night, they are more likely to re-offend.
Giving them a tent and a sleeping bag makes that less likely, apparently.
Difficult to fault the logic, but a pretty sad indictment of the state of the country – don’t despair though, there’s a royal wedding coming up !