Aggravated assault during an attempted carjacking. The aggravated charge stemming from my use of a paslode gas actuated nail gun to defend myself against an armed attacker. I worked a construction job at the time to pay for my automotive trade tech schooling.
acquitted of all charges but this took six months of my life. Bail only works for rich people. In my opinion its easier to just do the time and work with the judge. Bail bonds also wrecked my credit.
Bail can change, too. The judge could just "decide" they dont want you in jail and release you under monitored conditions. this type of amnesty is very popular for rich people...especially if you have a winning complexion.
It's also a common tactic for police to do mass arrests on a Friday if some large event is happening on the weekend too. That's how they clean the streets of anything that will embarass the mayor in front of foreign press such as homeless with unpaid fines, activists they know will disrupt, ect. You have to wait all weekend in jail to see a judge on Monday or Tuesday that will almost always just release you. Anybody whos been through the system the first thing you notice is how at least half the people you meet shouldn't be there.
Fair enough - if who I replied called it, "prison", I'll remit my nit-picking ;)
But usually you cannot bail out of prison, right? You get arrested, and go to a city jail, where you can get bailed out. If you are found guilty, you go to county or prison to serve a sentence.
The terms are fairly interchangeable. There's no hard and fast rule or law that states "jail" is one type of incarceration and "prison" is another. In the U.S., we lean to referring to long-term incarceration as prison and short-term as jail, but that's a fairly "local" thing.
But to what you're thinking of, I believe that is correct; bail is for short-term incarceration pending a trial. If you've been tried and sentenced, you can't bail.
