Criminal Law Review

County jail can be a very dangerous place! And shouldn’t be something anyone should experience.

If you have one glass of wine over the limit and drive a car, you might find yourself in handcuffs.

Most of us always wave the thought of going to or ending up in jail.

Unfortunately this happened to me of course in the most unexpected moment and I went through hell.

What I’m really trying to say is I think people should educate themselves more about the experience of county jail, getting arrested and knowing your rights. Other things like how to behave if you get pulled over by the cops and if you have kids, you really want to know what to do if you suddenly get a phone call in the middle of the night from jail telling you your son or daughter were incarcerated.

Do you know that if you end up in county jail, even if you are bailed out you can still be in the system for 24 hours until you are actually released? In that time you are arrested with criminals from all sorts of life including murderers, gang members, rapists, bank robbers and the list goes on. There are different gangs in jails and prison that usually are associated to the race you are.

I ended up in Los Angeles county jail in the men’s Central jail house and the processing I went through was tortures! I really wished I was more educated before getting arrested for the first time.

If I only read a little beforehand I could have saved myself a lot of aggravation from the inmates and jailors.

My relatives could have also done things on the outside to help me get out of there much faster and helped me during my incarceration. Knowledge is power! Educate yourself about the danger in jail and prepare for dangerous situations you can find yourself in just because you drank one glass of wine to many and drove a car.

Tip: If you can avoid ending up in county jail and being bailed out ASAP from the local jail before being transported to downtown, do it! The local jails are a piece of cake compared to county.