You forgot about prison 1.01. Find the biggest toughest inmate and beat the shit out of them on your first day.
Re-integration with family can also be difficult after prison time. Here’s a documentary that may help.
You forgot: don’t overfill your prison wallet.
I’m not sure if that’s a euphemism, but it sure sounds like it.
I once talked to a jailhouse snitch; he was singing to the DEA to try to avoid a prison sentence for trafficking.
At one point, he referred to a guy who had smuggled drugs into the jail. That guy was drinking coffee and patting his belly when he told the other inmates that he would be able to get the drugs “out of the safe” soon.
I was confused, until the snitch explained that “the safe” was the guy’s stomach.
Nice response to a minor. Well done
If she comes back and provides confirming details of this unlikely situation, I’ll eat my hat.
Even if not true, why bother with ugly, sexist bullshit?
I was going for irreverence. I see it didn’t land. My apologies.
The juvenile facility and your school have counselors to help you. Contact them before you go to the facility to work out your schooling. They are literally there to help you with this and want to see you succeed. You can also consult the juvenile counselor about what you need to do to get through the physical experience you’re about to go through. Your parents can be included with these conversations.
Since you are a good student you’re used to structured learning process. This is one of them. Write down your questions so you have a base for a plan to work with. Good luck,
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My apologies.
Juvenile detention is not “kiddie jail”, and so it’s quite unusual to be sentenced to 30 days’ time. Typically, first time offenders are given some form of probation. Of course, if the victim was seriously maimed, injured, or killed, I’d expect a person to get incarcerated, but it’d be for much longer than a month.
So, OP, you either got off really light (because you nearly killed somebody, and they likely weren’t in court because they were convalescing), or you were punished far more than is typical of a distracted driver (are you sure alcohol wasn’t also listed as a contributing factor?)
Juvenile detention is like dorm room living, with classes and homework and lots of structure. Just focus on passing your classes, and you’ll be fine.
What will be challenging will be twofold: one, you will feel constrained in your ability to do stuff. Free time is limited, not just in duration but also in what you can do.
And, unfortunately, many of the people you encounter will be struggling with mental health issues- some of that will be anger, and it might be scary to see, but you won’t be targeted unless you are confrontational. Nearly all of the people struggling in juvenile detention have their biggest issues with themselves, so you won’t be their focus.
30 days isn’t very long. Get ahead on your schoolwork.
(And I meant it about not getting any homemade tattoos. Or other drama shit, like “hookups”. Just observe so you have a good chapter to write for your memoirs one day. As I often tell people dealing with legal jeopardy: this is a chapter of your life, but it’s not the whole story).
Apologies @Aspenglow. I will apologize to the OP upon her return.
I’m a frequent blood and blood products donor with the American Red Cross. One thing I’ve always been curious about is one of the questions on the eligibility questionnaire:
Q28 In the past 12 months, have you been in juvenile detention, lockup, jail, or prison for 72 hours or more consecutively?
It has always made me wonder what happens on day four in juvenile detention to affect blood donor eligibility. I hope when you come back you can bring some insight to bear on this question.
Statistically people who spend more than 72 hours in lockup have some known likelihood of being infected with a transmissible disease. It’s not simply that they acquired it while locked up, they are more likely to have something than the average person.
I just remembered an acquaintance, maybe 55 or 60 years old, who in his youth killed several people in an accident that was his fault. IIRC he started nodding off and drifted across the center line and hit an oncoming family, but I might have conflated his case with another; in any case he accidentally killed several people and was at fault.
It was a major influence on his life, first destroying his spirit with guilt, and then motivating him to be helpful and kind in the world. He had an ugly burden to bear (as of course did the people who knew the deceased) but he did do something good with it.
So, OP, you got a much lighter test case than he did, which is a big plus.
So, how was it? Want to tell how it went and how you feel now?
You sound remorseful and unlikely to be a repeat offender, having learned a hard lesson (i.e. keep your eye on the road at all times). IANAL, but I would think the judge would be amenable to delaying your jail time to when it wouldn’t interfere with your school (e.g. summer break), so that you can graduate on time. Worth asking via you attorney, I think.
In what jurisdiction do you get 30 days in jail for causing a car accident where no one died? Even adults don’t get that kind of time for something like this.