How is the environment or socials different between jails and prisons?
Say a convicted rapist gets sent to jail for 6 months while another gets sent to PRISON for 50 years. How will the guy in jail for 6 months b treated different than a guy in prison or the same?
Give examples of different crimes for each people in jail or prison, how they'd be treated different.
Is Jail not as harsh or do you get treated the same as if you're in Prison?
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Well when the word gets out you are a "rapist" in jail or prison people are going to try to beat you up and harass you daily because of it. Then people are going to be highly upset and mad because they got more time or then that person did when they committed a lesser crime.
I personally know a guy who is in prison for life for rape, another man who got 3 years for rape. Also a man who got 5 years probation for "Unlawful sexual conduct with a minor" and another man who got 16 years for "unlawful sexual conduct with a minor". So yes the laws are flawed. Thing vary from a jail to a prison. In prison you have a bit more freedom then you do in jail cause prison is long term and jail is not.
Other inmates in jail or prison are going to treat people badly when the word gets out in there about they are in there for rape. It is worse in prison then it is in jail. In jail people are threatened by other people of the same sex that they are going to rape them to show them how it feels to be raped. They get lots of threats, sometime there is actual physical violence. In prison people actually do rape people who are in there for rape and smash their face in with lock boxes and such. Not always the case with all people convicted of a sex charge but most of them.
Well when the word gets out you are a "rapist" in jail or prison people are going to try to beat you up and harass you daily because of it. Then people are going to be highly upset and mad because they got more time or then that person did when they committed a lesser crime.
I personally know a guy who is in prison for life for rape, another man who got 3 years for rape. Also a man who got 5 years probation for "Unlawful sexual conduct with a minor" and another man who got 16 years for "unlawful sexual conduct with a minor". So yes the laws are flawed. Thing vary from a jail to a prison. In prison you have a bit more freedom then you do in jail cause prison is long term and jail is not.
Other inmates in jail or prison are going to treat people badly when the word gets out in there about they are in there for rape. It is worse in prison then it is in jail. In jail people are threatened by other people of the same sex that they are going to rape them to show them how it feels to be raped. They get lots of threats, sometime there is actual physical violence. In prison people actually do rape people who are in there for rape and smash their face in with lock boxes and such. Not always the case with all people convicted of a sex charge but most of them.
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I know people who have been convicted of sex crimes inculding rape and some of them are still in prision now.
Jails and prisons are not the same thing. Here is roughly the way it works:
Jails are operated by local jurisdictions, like the city and county. Prisons are operated by a state or the federal government.
The purpose of a jail is to hold a person through the arrest and trial process, Once the person is convicted, the jail is supposed to send the prisoner to a prison. Jails are set up so that all residents are temporary processing places for prisons.
In a perfect world, no one would spend more than a few months in jail. The problem is that out corrections system is overwhelmed with prisoners and there is little space in most prisons. Jails have become de facto prisons. Lots of problems arise from the now overcrowded jail – violent prisoners go into the general population, there are no rehab programs, people get lost.
If you want more information on the problem, look at some of the private prison sites (CCA, Wackenhut) or search for articles on prison overcrowding. You'll get lots of relevant stuff.
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