# Cannot decide if this is stupid or not: paying for jail.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 28, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108 "2011-06-28T05:21:18Z")
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### Author:  [@jeredc1983](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeredc1983)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108/1 "2011-06-28T05:21:18Z")
[http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=634345](http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=634345)
This is the jail in my county; they are hoping to make some money by acting as if it is a hotel. Is this stupid or brilliant? Or perhaps somewhere in my between. I wanted some doper opinions on this matter!
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### Author:  [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108/2 "2011-06-28T05:38:28Z")
I would do it as long as the cell and outer doors remained locked. It’s silly and fun with the booking photo and t-shirt.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108/3 "2011-06-28T05:38:40Z")
At $30 including breakfast, dinner, a photo and a t-shirt (and available only over two days) I don’t think they are hoping to turn a profit.
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### Author:  [@jeredc1983](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeredc1983)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108/4 "2011-06-28T05:39:59Z")
I’d probably be more behind it if they were doing it for charity; this is in my home state of Missouri and Joplin could really use the help.
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### Author:  [@ecseas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ecseas)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108/5 "2011-06-28T06:11:03Z")
That’s not the first place to do it, I know some of the old, out of use jails here do it. They conduct a ghost tour, and then you are put in a cell to sleep for the night.
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### Author:  [@jeredc1983](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeredc1983)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2011, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108/6 "2011-06-28T06:12:11Z")
I can imagine some white rapper around here paying the $30 to spend the night in jail in order to boost his street credibility.
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2011, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108/7 "2011-06-28T08:06:51Z")
Butt-fucking? Just to “round out” the experience?
Q
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2011, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108/8 "2011-06-28T08:35:22Z")
In a Missouri county jail, smuggled-in low-quality drugs would be more appropriate, or verisimilitudinous, or whatever the word is I want.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108/9 "2011-06-28T16:23:47Z")
Can you pay extra to avoid the dinner and breakfast?
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannot-decide-if-this-is-stupid-or-not-paying-for-jail/587108/10 "2011-06-28T17:08:36Z")
It’s an interesting idea. Kind of a novelty thing.
Around here two jails have been converted, one into a hotel and one into a restaurant. They’re pretty swanky.