Access to justice for people living in poverty 2012, para. 48
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Across developing and developed countries, incarceration rates are extremely high for persons living in poverty. Disproportionately high numbers of them are arrested, detained and imprisoned as a result of law enforcement officials' frequent use of poverty, homelessness or disadvantage as an indicator of criminality, and they encounter considerable obstacles in manoeuvring within or exiting the criminal justice system.
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights