Sister Facing Parole--Is It Worse Than Jail?

ur sister will have to stay away from anyone who has ever had any criminal record, no alcohol or drugs (they will check) and ANY trouble will rescend her parole and land her in jail any way 

Kee, She played the game and lost, Parole  seem's fair  and better then jail!!

i would have to agree with the option of parole being the better sentence although i have seen many of paroleies violate there parole within the first couple of days of there release from prison i guess it depends on the person and how much they value there freedom

I've been to prison before, what is it you want to know? I've been to CIW in California before having to much Cocaine. It is nothing like the County jail, in fact you eat better there salad bar and roast beef and baked potato and that is just some of the stuff they feed you she will stay locked up in a room for at least 30 days until they classify her once they classify her she will either get a job or go to school whichever the classification wants her to do. If she works she will get paid so she will have money but they do not let you hold money you can shop once a month and they will take the money off her books. Once she hits the yard she can go any where she wants on her free time like the library, or just hang around the yard the only time they will lock you down is when there is a riot and if it is foggy they will escort you to breakfast. Tell her not to get involve with drugs and she will be alright. Because they can not hold money in there the only way you cna get drugs is by telling your family or friends  to wire the money to some one on the out side. But if they do not pay they will more than likely hurt you in the shower. It is not that bad as long as she stays away from drugs in there. You can go to NA or AA meeting in there and there is a lot of churches that come there so she can go to church  every night if she wants. This is how it was in 1988 when I was in there. You can send her boxes of goods(junk food and coffee etc) and she can have a TV in her room, but you have to get it from a sears catalog and sears has to mail it to her that way people can not sneak drugs in there. You can have visits where you can touch but they search you before the visit and after for her.

That is true but as long as she does good when she gets out they will not bother to do that. but if she has testing they could come to your house and test her anytime. Hey but if she gets probation, because you have to go to prison to get parole, Probation is when you only do county time so if she does not go to prison she will get probation instead and probation isn't as bad as parole. If she does not have to test for drugs she could get lucky and just send in a report by mail every month but if she gets testing then she has to call in every night and see if she has to go the next day and test. Just pray that she does not get testing. I hope that answers some of your questions if you need more info let me know you can go to my profile if you want.

Michelle you are right I think she can not even drink booze, or hang around anyone with a record.

Here is how it works you commit a small crime you do County time you commit a big crime and you can get County jail time for the first time with a suspended sentence of prison time. which means when you get out of County and you are on Probation, But if you mess up on probation you will go to the State Prison they call this a tail. County time with probation and a tail but that is only when you commit a felony. Now if you steal something real cheap you will do County jail time. But if you are on Probation and you have a tail(suspended sentence) and you steal something you will go to prison to do the time because the judge actually suspended your prison time until you get caught doing some thing bad again. When you go to Prison you come out on parole. So what keebler1's sister will get probation cause she did not go to Prison she went to the County Jail. When a person commits a crime whether it be murder or even something petty they all go to the County Jail until they get sentence then if the judge orders prison they will stay at the County Jail until the bus comes to take them to prison. Do you guys understand now?

If the DA goes for it so will the judge they usually listen to the DA's recommendation. But she will not get parole but instead probation. But if the judge says probation with 16 months or more suspended that means if she messes up on probation that she will have to go to Prison for 16 or more months, and then when she gets out she will be on Parole. Parole and Probation are different. They help you more when you are on parole, like to get a job and stuff. just hope she does not have to test for drugs cause that can be hard.