I'm new to this forum and am looking at an undetermined amount of jail time. I originally was searching for pen pals because all (of the few) of my friends want nothing to do with me. I am normally a very quiet person, had never been in trouble until a set up; not even a speeding ticket! Although this site is for prisons; I thought I would see if the advice is the same for jails? Is a quiet, polite, country girl bound to have problems inside? I have evey intentionn of just staying completely to myself, if allowed. And at this point in the legal game; I don't want to talk to anyone because they've all lied to me including my lawyer. So what's my best approach; besides hoping for some miracle that the judge will see what happened and not give any jail timme?

have no advice on the prison in the USA.. but wanted to wish you luck from an English gal..friends come and go and only the best stay in touch,and true...but i hope you get your wish to stay outta prison..take care thinking of you...kate

IMHO, jails and prisons have the same problems-at least thats what my pps tell me.
I wish you much luck. Think of the positive and if you are givien time as least you know this site is here and you can post an ad and get a pp.

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Pony you are clearly talking about a misdemeanor case when you say
you face undetermined amount of jail time. Jails and prisons are not the
same animal, regardless of what you read here or anywhere else.

Because you do not (and I respect that) say the charges that will lead you to jail, or if there are several charges, the undetermined jail time
you mention is not so..You see, misdemeanors in general carry by law
certain amount of jail time. So if you can look up the statute under the misdemeanor you violated, you can see that a judge can only give you
so much time in jail. Like I said, if there is only one charge.
As to staying out of trouble, hey once you get to jail, you can even get
a job as a trusty -- sweeping the kitchen or feeding inmates. You name
it, jail is a piece of cake Pony have no fear.
to be sentenced under

Yes, four of the fleonies were reduces to misdemeanors. I was actually quite suprised to see that all it took to actually drop the charges down was a pen and the Comm. Attny marked out the word felony and all parties involved initialed it! I know there is a max amount of time I can get, but I certainly hope it doesn't come anywhere near that. But if it does; atleast I know the police should be in the cell next to me because I have proof they did the same thing they charged me with!

if your going to be doing your own time, is it a good idea that you have just sent out a letter to a penpal, will you be able to still write them?

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There are two new shows on Jail. They follow the inmate being charged, booked, etc. They are both very graphic and show jail as a dangerous place. I respectfully disagree with Rolando's quote "Jail is just a piece of cake". I have 2 pp's that would agree with me as well. They put 6 or more people in a cell. I have heard of fights, male on male rape, etc. Sounds like prison to me.

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I'm thinking that my folks will be able to put the letter into another envelope and send to me. and then I can reply back and they can resend back to my pp. Or atleast read the letter to me and I can send them the reply to mail out for me. On paper, I guess I am looking at years in jail (which I guess I would actually be sent to ta prison), but in one of the deals the Comm Attny offered; the total time was 6 month in jail. And from what I understand; I would only do half of that since it is misdemeanors. I also figured I could have some cards prewritten to be mailed out at certain intervals so that my pp would atleast get something in the mail.

Since I am typically a loner and prefer to be by myself; is it possible to stay "to myself" in jail? Or do they make you get out of your cell and participate in stuff?

I guess people who have been in prison/jail are the real persons who could let Pony know about what it's like beeing in there.
I just could tell about the stuff I have heard of but not sure if that is true.
So sorry Pony can't really help.