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Not to disparage your suffering at all, but jail isn't always so much better. > you broke a written rule and you spend some time for it. Not true. Jail is for
by gertef 9y ago
Not to disparage your suffering at all, but jail isn't always so much better.
> you broke a written rule and you spend some time for it.
Not true. Jail is for people accused of breaking rules, not convicted. And arrests are severely biased against certain subpopulations.
> The judge gives you rules and you follow them and you get out.
which generally involve sitting in jail because you can't afford bail, with a nontrivial chance of losing your job due to absence, then losing your home due to poverty.
Don't argue which injustice is worse. Fight the injustice.
https://brooklynbailfund.org/ https://brooklynbailfund.org/
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Jail is for people accused of breaking rules, not convicted While you make some good points, you are confusing “jail” with “pretrial detention”; while much (but not all) pre-trial detention is done in jails, that's not the only thing jails are used for; people do serve post-conviction sentences in jails, too.
- logfromblammo 9y agoMisdemeanor convictions (i.e. less than a year of incarceration) may be served in a jail. Felony terms are served in prisons. I am not very familiar with this, and it probably varies by state.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Misdemeanor convictions (i.e. less than a year of incarceration) may be served in a jail. Felony terms are served in prisons. That's a common but not universal rule; California, for instance, sends felons whose crime is not a violent or serious felony, or one that requires sex offender registration, to county jails.