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[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

is there a difference between prison and jail?

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 35 points 1 year ago

Sort of. Jail is where people not privileged enough to afford bail await trial. And sometimes lesser sentences like if they're under a year or in relation to a misdemeanor are served.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

so jail is just a temporary imprisonment?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

For misdemeanor sentences (under a year) you might do that in jail.

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

jail is where they'd put you to dry out, sober up, hopefully behave yourself. lots of old movies make jail seem comically quaint. I myself have been released from the lockup "on my own recognizance" or some such, basically means they didn't want the expense of keeping me there, plus I agreed in writing to show up for the court date.

prison doesn't have to mean federal time, could be a big scary state prison, but you get there from doing felonies. and the felony could be just weed, like you had a garbage bag full of it and shared it with friends.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I have been incarcerated in jail several times, and once I went to a maximum security prison to do some work. Jail was by far scarier, and not because I was locked up necessarily. Just the people there. A lot of them were fucking unhinged. Hanging off railings screaming like howler monkeys. Everyone in prison was very polite, they were making a community soup, just hanging out, visiting each other's cells.

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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