Question for American friends
Steve Brooks
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SB
John Iwaniszek
> In your country what's the difference between jail time and prison time?
>
It depends on the context. Some jail time is spent awaiting trial. if a
person is found innocent, then that jail time is unocmpensated punishment for
someone else's mistake. If the person is found guilty, often "time served"
is subtracted from whatever institutional confinement is rendered as part of
the ultimate sentance.
There are basically three prison systems reflecting the jurisdiction of the
crime committed: county, state, and federal.
Weirdwolf
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> In your country what's the difference between jail time and prison time?
>
So you listened to the thing about the Johnny Cash Folsom prison concert as
well then?
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Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to
hide the bodies
John Iwaniszek
> "Steve Brooks" <ste...@postmaster.invalid> wrote in news:c%cuk.150495
> $LU4....@newsfe24.ams2:
>
>> In your country what's the difference between jail time and prison
>> time?
>>
>
> So you listened to the thing about the Johnny Cash Folsom prison concert
> as well then?
That is an awesome album.
Johnny: "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die..."
Convicts: "Roar!!!!"
jail time, you are possibly in your own community. Prison time, you are in
the big house, in another county or state.
Weirdwolf
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This was the program,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/musicfeature/pip/7lic9/
From the beeb website
"Matthew Bannister recalls Johnny Cash's historic 1968 concert at Folsom
Prison in California, one of the most famous live recordings ever made.
Contributors include musicians, former prison guards, inmates and local
newspaper reporter Gene Beley, who recorded the event on a small tape
machine."
I think the listen again link will allow you to hear it.
Steve Brooks
"Weirdwolf" wrote
> "Steve Brooks" wrote
>> In your country what's the difference between jail time and prison time?
>>
>
> So you listened to the thing about the Johnny Cash Folsom prison concert
> as
> well then?
Yep. And I was struck by that comment. Why, in terms of social status, did
it matter that Johnny had only done jail time and never prison?
Confuslement.
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SB
Tyler Trafford
> In your country what's the difference between jail time and prison
> time?
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Jail_vs_Prison#In_the_United_States
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Tyler Trafford
She often gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).
-- Lewis Carroll
John Iwaniszek
It's not as mind-bendingly terrifying as prison. Hell. I've been in jail.
(for twenty minutes. and I was innocent.)
Jim Larson
(Was it for shootin' on a'them McCoy boys?)
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Jim
Weirdwolf
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Smuggling moonshine in his bright orange Dodge charger. Well it wasn't the
smuggling moonshine that they objected to but the fact that he insisted on
doing it whilst wearing a pair of really short cut off denim shorts.
Adira
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> In your country what's the difference between jail time and prison time?
>
Jail usually means city or county...............local incarceration usually
a 5 year maximum.
Prison is usually for state or federal crimes.
John Iwaniszek
While my family has a history of bootlegging, no. I was falsely accused
of DWI by the town constabulary when I was a sprout in VA.
The incident occured here: http://tinyurl.com/57q4rp
If you go north on 421 then hang a left on 352, you will arrive at St.
Charles. You will also pass the Great Stone Face, and the birhtplace of
the Rogers sibling, 3/4 of whom now reside in the Carter County Jail.
1/2 of them coincidently now share a cell.
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Steve Brooks
"Adira" wrote
> "Steve Brooks" wrote
>> In your country what's the difference between jail time and prison time?
>>
>
> Jail usually means city or county...............local incarceration
> usually
> a 5 year maximum.
>
> Prison is usually for state or federal crimes.
Thanks.
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SB
John Iwaniszek
(which still fit like a glove, I might add.)
Jim Larson
I suppose you were just makin' your way the only way you knew how, but that
was just a little bit more than the law would allow.
> The incident occured here: http://tinyurl.com/57q4rp
>
> If you go north on 421 then hang a left on 352, you will arrive at St.
Thank you, no...
> Charles. You will also pass the Great Stone Face, and the birhtplace of
> the Rogers sibling, 3/4 of whom now reside in the Carter County Jail.
> 1/2 of them coincidently now share a cell.
(I hope that means 2 out of 4 rather than an assorted collection of body
parts. I make no assumptions with you southerners.)
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Jim
John Iwaniszek
You can count cousins as wholes. 4 cousins, three currently in jail, The
two females are sharing a cell. I do not have any information pertaining
to the incarceration status of their children or grandchildren, although
my mother (hysterically, as is her style) declared that "all of Bernice's
children and grandchildren (great-grandchildren were not mentioned) are
in jail!!!!!" Mom tends to exagerrate so I reserved judgement until I
could independently verify.
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