The inmates are all treated basically the same. The ones that have a harder time inside are making it hard on themselves. If you look for conflict and confrontation, you are in the right place. There is plenty of trouble to get into if you act up. Generally speaking it's not like you see on television - you get three square meals and a bed to sleep on. You have a menial job and lots of time to kill. Boredom is the
Read moreWhen an inmate has a history of being a corrections officer, especially with a charge as serious as child abuse, it is highly likely that the correctional facility will take extra measures to ensure his safety. Here's what you can expect regarding his placement: 1. Protective Custody (PC): High Risk for Harm: As a former corrections officer and someone facing a child abuse charge, your inmate-to-be will be at a higher risk of harm from other inmates.
Read moreTwo things commonly hold up transfers to treatment facilities: overcrowding and detainers. If the treatment facility is at capacity, incoming transfers get backed up in county until a bed opens. That can take weeks or longer, depending on how the facility manages its population. There is no reliable way to rush it from the outside. The other possibility is a detainer, which is a legal hold placed by another jurisdiction that has pending charges or a warrant against your
Read moreNot good. A fourth DUI in Michigan while actively on probation for the third is about as bad a combination as it gets in the drunk driving context. The new DUI itself triggers a new criminal prosecution, and the probation violation from the third offense runs alongside it. He is now looking at two separate legal matters hitting at the same time. In Michigan, a fourth DUI is a felony under the habitual offender provisions that apply after multiple
Read moreHe knows the rules, if he does not register like he is supposed to, then they will keep locking him up. Why is he avoiding registration? The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, also known as SORNA, is part of a comprehensive federal law that requires states to maintain a system for monitoring and tracking convicted sex offenders following their release into the community. The Act makes it a federal crime to knowingly fail to register with a state's
Read moreThe mandatory minimum for a felony gun possession is five years. Everyone that has been incarcerated knows 100% that they cannot be within 500 feet of an empty shell casing, much less with gun that belongs to someone else.
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Read moreAlmost certainly not. California's Proposition 57 was designed to provide parole consideration for nonviolent offenders and to allow CDCR to award additional credits for rehabilitation and programming. The keyword is nonviolent. Prop 57 specifically excludes people with violent convictions or enhancements, and gang enhancements in California are treated as serious sentence aggravators that effectively remove someone from the nonviolent category for purposes of this kind of relief. A felon in possession of a firearm charge, combined with a gang
Read moreYes, failure to register is a serious criminal offense on its own, and prison is absolutely a possible outcome. In most states, failure to register as a sex offender is charged as a felony, which carries the same weight as any other felony conviction. The severity of the charge and the sentence range depend on the state and whether it is a first failure or a repeated violation. The situation becomes significantly more complicated when the person is already
Read moreSelection for work release at Cobb County is not automatic and it is not something an inmate applies for in a formal sense. It is something they earn through consistent behavior that the staff and counselors observe over time. The baseline requirements are a clean disciplinary record, demonstrated engagement with programming, and visible effort toward preparation for reentry. An inmate who has write-ups, who avoids programming, or who keeps to themselves in a way that gives staff nothing positive
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