I was thinking the same thing. I did a school paper once on the "Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill", and as I recall, homelessness is not infrequently caused by mental illness in people. Now granted, they don't perform psych evaluations on jurors that are culled through the normal jury selection, so there's no guarantee that jurors from ANY source are mentally healthy. BUT I would predict that there are MORE people with mental illnesses that are in homeless shelters, than are generally found in regular renting/owning/housing lifestyles. Not to mention drug addiction, the costs of which I think put people into situations such as homelessness.
Maybe they should offer subsidies for childcare and pet care for these extended sequestered jurors. Or even just pay them more.
