If I wanted to do some jail time just for a real life experience -what kind of non-violent crime could I do?

In reality I probably don't but I feel curious what it would be like.

I seldom disagree with you Baba.  But I do here. 

In reality, it is something I think everyone should experience.  If not everyone, at least everyone involved in the criminal justice systems.  But I prefer everyone experience it, so they can realize the good and the bad it can do...and it is the ordinary citizens who continually elect politicians based on the "get tough on crime" stance.  


Factually, the vast majority of inmates will be released...into your city, your neighborhood maybe, they may even end up living next door to you.  It might serve us all well if people understood what we actually subject them to on some tiny level.  I am, of course, not talking about the rapists and child molesters and murderers - though most of those will also be released at some point - but the petty crap that people are routinely imprisoned for in this country today. 


Ex-cons will end up in your life, without your knowledge even...and it is not always a bad thing.  Most of the time you never even know.   

so you are speaking from experience
of being in jail or prison?
.....Been there done that...no fun.
But I do agree there should be some knowledge 
of what happens to people that are locked up.
... when locked up, at first, often times they put you in a common jail
with all of the really bad guys. You sit down
and a dude comes to you and says you are in his spot.
you move and that is his spot as well.
Or he just doesn't like your face and he
rearranges it for you. You fight to stay alive,
and then all of a sudden, you have been slapped with 
a longer time locked up for fighting.
     Then you get transferred to the big house
and everything amplifies for the new fish.
They knock your teeth out
so you can be their sex slave.
So then you join gangs for protection.
I would not wish that on anyone.
     
...people change when they have to go through scenes like that.
Fight or die scenarios...no fun if one is a peaceful person...
but I do understand your point of view that people should
know about what happens when one is locked up.
Cheers Bozette. This post was edited by Baba at February 7, 2018 2:36 PM MST

I have been in jail, yes.  I have also had people very close to me that served prison time, and I was an advocate through CURE (Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants).  I have had two people paroled to my home, as well, and hired a few ex-cons as employees. 

The "bad guys" are not limited to the inmates, but include those wearing badges...and that is from what I have personally witnessed in my brief time in jail. 

They do change.  They can change back, but if they have served prison time...it takes about two years from what I have seen, and that is if they have familial support and work.  And it is very, very hard to be the familial support during those two years.  

Given the the US incarcerates more than any other country, including an estimated 25-40+% of our youth by the time they are 23, and that the vast majority will be released at some point...I think it is an important issue. 

Kudos to you. I know a guy like that myself here in DK though he only do rehab of Drug addicts, I expect they are a bit easier (not a lot though). Personally I can claim no activity in this area; but I much appreciate people like you who have enough will and surplus to take it on.

Thank you, Jakob. 

Admirable Bozette
I respect what you do
and thank you as well.
A great Service, Incredibly hard,
It takes a special someone
to work all of that out
Great Work Bozette
Cheers

Thanks, Baba. 

Who.. me! Did you find my fingerprints on it?

Who called for a fingerprint tech? 

Where I live one never get jail time for minor theft unless it's the 17th time or so.

  So move. 

~

Yes I should because they are always shortchanging me.

Using a toy gun does not, at least in some jurisdictions, prevent you from being charged with "armed robbery"...regardless of whether a robbery actually took place and/or it was actually a real gun.  Just sayin'. 

I'm sure you must be right.  I've never done it so I wouldn't know.  It IS good to know, however, that you don't mess around with the police.  Their job is to keep you safe and if you are taking up their time doing something like faking a robbery, there might be someone in real trouble that needed their attention.

I remember the little kid playing down by the river
with a toy gun in the news.
The cops saw him...no questions asked...just shot and killed him.

It has happened more than once. 

But if there is a visible "gun" she is likely to get shot when a cop arrive.