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Originally Posted by gutterseo
Well seems I got a lot to learn about prison and jail, not being from the US. We just got ourselves the one type here(of course high and low security for different types of criminals).
Is the difference between jail and prison something got to do with privatization.
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Where I was, prison was only used for serving sentences of a year or more. If you were waiting for trial or sentenced to something under a year, you would be sent to county.
According to people I've talked to, it's preferable to be in prison because there is much more to do and you aren't stuck in one place all day. For me, I actually was hanging out with people i knew from highschool most of the time playing spades and dominoes and watching tv. Food was fucking awful, and I can remember the best meal I ever ate was taco bell as soon as I got out.