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You don't get 3 years in jail, you get 3 years in prison. The only jail time you do waiting to be sentenced to prison is the time you wait to go to court. Do y

You don't get 3 years in jail, you get 3 years in prison. The only jail time you do waiting to be sentenced to prison is the time you wait to go to court. Do you think it's appropriate to call out someone for using "jail" instead of "prison", when the meaning is clear, and you made the same mistake just 5 minutes prior? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497654 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497654 and in your original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14496609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14496609

sbov 9y ago
It wasn't clear for all of us. It would be nice of the OP to change "jail" to "prison" if that's what they meant.
- pixl97 9y ago
  The definition between a jail and a prison is very much depends on what state you are in. For example in Texas, you've sat in jail for 6 month and receive a 1 year sentence, you will not be sent to prison, you will remain in the jail for the next 6 months. You can remain in 'jail' for years sometimes before being sent to a prison facility, even after sentencing.
- anigbrowl 9y ago
  In the USA, sentences of less than 1 year are misdemeanors and can be served in a jail. Sentences of longer than 1 year are felonies and are served in prison. Jails are operated under authority of the county in which they are located, prisons under the authority of state or federal government. This is obviously a summary rather than an exhaustive definition.
cubano 9y ago
No I most definitely did not make a mistake. Yes CCDC aka Clark County Detention Center (aka Las Vegas County Jail) is a jail in downtown Las Vegas where I did my kitchen slave labor recently on a 90-day sentence for basically jaywalking. If I were to be sentenced for more then a year, I would have been sent to a prison somewhere in the boonies of Nevada away from Vegas. The OP discussed a "3-year jail sentence", and I simply explained that would not be possible as jail and prison are significantly different institutions with very different implications. I don't think I am wrong to continually express the difference between the two.
- opo 9y ago
  >... on a 90-day sentence for basically jaywalking. Can you elaborate?
  - cubano 9y ago
    Sure. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14017760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14017760
    - opo 9y ago
      That is a rough story. I hope things improve for you. Those who support the war on drugs should think about his point: >...Was this the outcome society wants me to have? To wreck what small success I struggled to get over what amounted to an illegal search and seizure (that's my PD talking, not me)? Who was the victim of my "crime"? ... The war on drugs is just a war on people.
  - 77pt77 9y ago
    TLDR. There was meth involved apart from the jaywalking...

sbov 9y ago

It wasn't clear for all of us. It would be nice of the OP to change "jail" to "prison" if that's what they meant.

pixl97 9y ago
The definition between a jail and a prison is very much depends on what state you are in. For example in Texas, you've sat in jail for 6 month and receive a 1 year sentence, you will not be sent to prison, you will remain in the jail for the next 6 months. You can remain in 'jail' for years sometimes before being sent to a prison facility, even after sentencing.
anigbrowl 9y ago
In the USA, sentences of less than 1 year are misdemeanors and can be served in a jail. Sentences of longer than 1 year are felonies and are served in prison. Jails are operated under authority of the county in which they are located, prisons under the authority of state or federal government. This is obviously a summary rather than an exhaustive definition.

cubano 9y ago

No I most definitely did not make a mistake. Yes CCDC aka Clark County Detention Center (aka Las Vegas County Jail) is a jail in downtown Las Vegas where I did my kitchen slave labor recently on a 90-day sentence for basically jaywalking. If I were to be sentenced for more then a year, I would have been sent to a prison somewhere in the boonies of Nevada away from Vegas. The OP discussed a "3-year jail sentence", and I simply explained that would not be possible as jail and prison are significantly different institutions with very different implications. I don't think I am wrong to continually express the difference between the two.

opo 9y ago
>... on a 90-day sentence for basically jaywalking. Can you elaborate?
- cubano 9y ago
  Sure. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14017760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14017760
  - opo 9y ago
    That is a rough story. I hope things improve for you. Those who support the war on drugs should think about his point: >...Was this the outcome society wants me to have? To wreck what small success I struggled to get over what amounted to an illegal search and seizure (that's my PD talking, not me)? Who was the victim of my "crime"? ... The war on drugs is just a war on people.
- 77pt77 9y ago
  TLDR. There was meth involved apart from the jaywalking...