I hope this isn’t too specific a question… i met someone with all my problems and jail on top - i couldn’t help thinking thet if i’d been a guy or if i had been a bit less fully supported… i would be an ex convicted person.
made me interested in the sliding doors effect of opportunities from birth… / genetics.
if you have been in jail?
or if you have been criminal and lucky to not go to jail?
I’ve been arrested and held at the county jail for 24 hours. It was the worst experience of my life. Total hell.
is county jail like in the films? this is one step further than a lock up room? I have been held in a holding cell of sorts in South Africa, (locked in, outdoors, 100 mostly male inmates) (poss. wrongful arrest)
and in a drying out cell… for Drunk and disorderly in uk
I too was arrested and put in a jail cell for a few hours. Then i was involuntarily hospitalised as they quickly realised I was looney tunes.
I’m lucky that I didn’t get arrested.
That’s all I have to say.
ah yes that happened to me too - i was very far gone
Yeah it’s a step further than holding. I was getting processed to go to the psych unit when I was able to leave. It was very bad.
hope never
I’ve bee to every holding cell, jail and prison in my home province, but I worked for the courts back then 
I’ve been in jail twice-once in the New Orleans House of Detention where I was sexually assaulted and once in Grafton W Va. Happy Mother’s Day!
Never was, but I did get a free ride home from a cop from the beach (after spending the night sleeping in my car for no reason).
That was many years ago.
I thought I would get a ticket or something, but the cop was friendly.
I was arrested because my sz. I had made some phone calls then 911 because of the delusions I had. I ended up getting charged with terrorist threats. I had no idea that I had sz. But I was certain that many people were after me ,my life and family for various reasons. My paranoia was out of control and jail was a terrifying place to be as a sz. The people fit all the stereotypes of the people that would come after you. I bounced between jail and the psych ward for about 3 weeks. They released me with a diagnosis and court dates. But I was still in denial and thought the entire ordeal was all part of me being targeted. It was hell being that paranoid delusional , going through the courts and trying to find work before my savings ran out. Had just been married a little over a year and had our first child about 40 days before my arrest. Glad to say I’ve made it through those days and it’s been 16 years. Things are good now,thank God!
That sounds completely terrible.
The stereotypes? Jesus! sorry
My mum said when my sister was going through a court trial that she had spent all her life protecting us so that we didn’t end up in jail / that system.
glad everything is okay now.
Yes I’m glad its over ,once my lawyer finally figured out I really was sick. He didn’t believe me for the longest time ,and I thought that was awesome that I found someone that agreed with me that I was perfectly sane. He decided to go with a temporary insanity plead. I really wasn’t fond of having that on my record. Especially when I was looking for work. He finally got the charges dropped so I don’t have a record. I suppose you could find the arrest record if you look hard enough but it has never come up. I’ve been working for the same company every since.
I served 18 hours of hard time in the city jail in 1988, lol.
They put me in the slammer for a “failure to appear” (in court) for a speeding ticket.
They had put a warrant out for my arrest so I walked to the jail about a mile away and turned myself in and then they let me out at midnight
I’m a dangerous man so watch out for us ex-cons.
I actually treated the whole experience as a big joke. I mean c’mon, going to jail over a speeding ticket?
Ridiculous. I called my family from my cell. I told them, “Guess what? I’m in jail”. We chatted and laughed.
Too many times
1515
I’ll take the 5th.
Did you write any country tunes?
'“Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen”.
I’d plead the 5th, too, but it’s Mother’s Day and I feel like coming clean. I should have gone to jail but the provider I was with at the time must have understood. She was not watching a year old baby, had her on a chair with no arms. I could see the baby was angry and scared and headachey. So what did I do? I threw her on the carpet. Not good problem solving to say the least. I suffered for doing that for years until I realized that it only made me hate other babies and all people for that matter. I am still working on slowing down and warming up.