I'm going to be in the county jail for about 2 weeks, What should I expect to deal with? How should I prepare?
372873
initially you will enter the booking and receiving are.  there you will be entered into the computer system, your belongings will be taken from you, logged, and stored. you will have to shower and de-louse either with spray or powder. (usually the corrections officer will de-louse you). you will be assigned to a cell block and a cell number.  (expect 15-20 people in your block).  wake up is usually around 7:00 a.m., you will clean your cell and block and chow is delivered to the cell block afterwards.  your day will mainly consist of doing absolutely nothing inside the dayroom area.  yard call is usually for 1 hour a day. if the c.o. has time. if not you don't go outside.  so you sit there on your sorry butt doing nothing on the taxpayers dime. (enjoy-your welcome). lunch and supper are usually served @ normal eating times., lights out is normally around 10:00p.m.  no smoking or tobacco products are allowed in most of the jails i had the displeasure of visiting.  (Past corrections officer for 3 years)
853947
Go to jail...go directly to jail...do NOT pass go...do NOT collect 200 dollars!
825786
You have two choices, you can call the jail were the person was taken ask for booking then wait for an officer to answer and ask what the charges are and when the next court hearing is for that person it usually is TV court right from jail you can go to the hearing or wait until court is over give it some time for all who went to court that day to be done when they get back to their cell you can call up booking again and ask if that person is going to be released or not. or you can go to your local inmate list and find out that way. example(www.riverside county inmate list) thanks
9947
Usually a "failure to appear" warrant will not result in jail time unless you have many prior failure to appears and they can show a pattern or if the failure to appear is on a serious felony crime or a crime in witch you are out on bail. Now either way it will be better for you to turn yourself in. However do not turn yourself in on a friday as this may result in sitting in jail until monday. Also I would call the court clerk and try to reschedule an appearance before I turned my self in to show that you did make an effort. Oh yea it is also bad if the appearance is for sentencing. They really frown on ditching accountability. In addition by turning yourself in you avoid all the hassle of having your car towed away and impounded if you are pulled over while drving. Don't panic! Especially if this is a minor offense. The courts and jails are so jammed up with truly bad people they have no time or room to lock people up for minor offenses. Even if it seems really bad to you. I assume that it is minor because you don't seem to have much experience dealing with the law. I personally have been pulled over with a valid warrant and the officer just cited and released me. However I have also seen people get hauled in friday night and have to wait til the offices open up Monday morning to be released with nothing more than a new court date. Anyways good luck and stay low until Monday.
1079367
Call the police and turn yourself in, you're going to get caught, there's no way you can win! Your parent's will cry and wish you good-bye as you zoom through the gate of the prison, All you can do is hope that the lou is deep enough to drown yourself in! If that doesn't work, you'll surely find work, there is plenty of murder for hire. And if nothing works out, don't scream nor shout, just remember you burn in Hell's fire. Have a nice day.
852025
I can tell you what happens in Illinois. You are transported by the Sheriff's deputy to the "processing" prison. In Illinois, that is either Graham, Menard or Statesville. Once there, you are immediately ordered to take off the jail clothes and put this green stuff in your hair to kill lice. then you are ordered to take a quick shower. After the shower, they place you in a cell for the next 2-4 weeks. During this time, you are processed through medical screening, psychological screening and physical screening. You use to be required to take an educational test. If you score below a certain score, you are required to attend school once you get to your placement prison. Where they place you depends on your escape risk, nature of conviction and time to be served. Once the processing is over after the 2-4 weeks at the processing center, then you are placed on a bus and transported to the prison that you will be staying at. However, the processing prison is similar to maximum security in nature. No movement, 2 showers per week, no telephone calls. You are allowed to receive mail and to write. Once you get to your permanant prison site, you are required to work at a job. Usually between .15 cents and .30 cents per hour. This is just enough to pay for the toiletries and personal items at the end of the month. Too many ignorant people sterotype prison as a place where people are raped every day. This is untrue. HOWEVER, inmates do have their own rules and it is definitely a world quite different from the outside. If you break those rules, then you will suffer the consequences. Remember that even if you are there for something petty as a drug conviction, there are murderers even at the minimum facilities. They are there because they have usually less than 5 years to serve on their sentence. It is a transitional period. Do not act as a bad a-s-s because those are the ones that find out the hard way. Do not call anyone a "b-i-t-c-h" or "p-u-n-k". Those two words can get you killed literally. Do not try to stare down another inmate. DO NOT get close to the guards on a friendly basis, otherwise, you will be considered a snitch and considered a danger to the other inmates. This could get you hurt.
696414
Okay, you've got a good description of the cell, except that your characters will have to use the toilet and shower in front of everyone else, depending on the size of the jail.    In large county jails, it's all one big open room during the day, then everyone's locked down at night in cells two to a room.   And don't count on them getting in the same room, or even the same unit, unless you're writing fiction.....\n\nA specific reason for their release?   If they have been officially arrested, they're not going to walk out of there just because they want to.   If they get arrested on a Friday night, they might have to wait until a bond hearing on Monday morning.   The judge looks at the charges, sets bail accordingly,  and then your guys better hope someone has the bucks to bond them out or put up their house.    Even then, they will be returned to the cell while the bail bondsman does the paperwork in his office.   It might be late afternoon before the bondsman shows up, the guys are summoned, have to wait and wait as they are processed down the halls (forget anything quick about the legal system, especially if it's lunch time), and finally get their property back and change clothes in little stalls, before having the bondsman meet them at the back door.    And that's just the beginning.....
638864
i really thought a woman of your worldly ways would know better...sigh, allow my expertise. first of all, send letters "from" him to about 50 lonely male prison inmates. make sure you include his address, phone number, social security number, anything you have of loser boy. next, well warm weather is here. when all the town fairs come around, they always have those annoying booths that no one goes to, except to get a free coffee cup, waterproofing for basements, dog fences, etc..., well sign him up for EVERYTHING, and make sure when they ask best time to call you put anytime between 1 a.m and 5 a.m.!!take any pictures you have of him, and make flyers stating he is armed and dangerous and to call the police. hang them at the laundromat, post office, phone poles, etc....\ngo to a library (they have better virus blockers), open all your bulk mail, and sign him up for all those goodies! good luck sista!!!
822593
If it was in my county, I'd ask, "Hey (name), how's life, put anyone in jail today."  If it were anyone else I'd ask how they were dealing with their local drug problem and proably tell them about the one we have here.  My dad's a longtime ADA, so I had more of an inside of view and don't wonder about the innerworkings of a DA's office.
915962
Have her call her PO from a pay phone and tell the PO she would like to turn herself in.  It is better to voluntarily surrender than to be picked up on the warrant.  Most probation violations are a 30-60 day hold in the county jail--but I don't know about absconding.  Either way--it will be easier on her to turn herself in rather than getting caught.
56471
Check to see if the laws of your state allow service by certified mail or publication in a newspaper.  If not, it will cost you about $40 to have the county sheriff serve the documents for you at the prison.  \n\nIf you want more assistance, look up the "court services bureau" of the county sheriff's office where the prision is located and pose your question to them.
1033958
call booking and give them name birth date and day of arrest if you know it. they will give you visitor schedule and requirements  and location of prisoner.
647088
How long will he be there? Also ask yourself if your willing to wait a number of years for someone who has broke the law to get where he is now. Not to say you don't love him but he should have gave all these things some thought before getting himself into jail..K
180537
How long is he down for? How did you meet him? I know of some wonderful, loving relationships that started behind the wall, but there are just as many stories where it just couldn't work with the seperation and stories where the guy was just using a girl to pass the time then dumped her when he got released, so take it slow. And I have to give you two cents worth of personal experience here Babydoll, I don't know your jailbird, so I can't make any comment about whether or not he'd be worth waiting for, but I can tell you this, with absolute certainty: Loving an inmate is a VERY HARD ROAD....it's about slogging through endless paperwork, it's trying to keep up with rules that seem to change every week, it's waiting for incredibly expensive collect phone calls that might or might not come and when he doesn't call, praying with all your heart that the phones in the day room are just either too busy or broken and that he's not hurt or on lockdown, it's becoming obsessive about checking your mail and the heartsick feeling that comes over you when the letter you want so badly isn't there,it's about getting writers cramp and spending $20 a week on stamps and stationary, it's about dealing with either keeping it secret or dealing with disapproval of the relationship everywhere you turn and mostly it means living in a future you can't be sure of and that really does take a toll.\nIf I had a choice, I wouldn't do it, but I've loved the guy for over 20 years and I can't quit now...and I'm almost 40, so it's not as if I'm spending my youth dealing with the Dept.of Corrections...think carefully, Sweetie, it is a hard, hard thing to do and no guarantees. \nIf you want more perspective from women who deal with this reality every day, please visit http://www.prisontalk.com
979307
Rebeka M,\nI'm not kidding, you are looking at jail time if you don't make good on those tickets. One day someone is going to knock on your door with a warrant for your arrest, I'm not kidding. They will only give you so much time to show up and then it's to late. Hope you have a good excuse to give to the judge. Take care of those tickets now as soon as possible.\nTDCWH
122256
maybe you should go to the jail for a visit
757693
call the jail they will tell you