California prison offers ‘quieter’ stay —for $155 a day

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/27/california-prison-offers-quieter-stay-for-155-a-day/




Perhaps money can’t buy you love. But in one Alameda County jail, it can buy you a comfier stay.

The Fremont police department now offers a “pay-to-stay” option for inmates who wish to stay in its facilities to avoid the rowdier county jails of Oakland or Dublin.

For $155 a day, inmates ordered to short jail stints can opt to stay in the “smaller, quieter” Fremont facility away from the county jail population, said Lt. Mark Devine, who oversees the program.

Include the one-time fee of $45, and the cost is similar to that of a three-star hotel. But make no mistakes, said Devine, it is still a jail:

“You do get cable TV, but you don’t get a warm cookie on your bed.”

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. What a great idea! They should set up a financing system....

.... similar to student loans so the families can go in to debt. They can have a tiered fee structure. Maybe for an extra $100 per night one can avoid prison rapes and beatings!

[HiPointDem]

2. omg, it's dickensian england all over again, fucking third world. oh, you don't get a warm

cookie, ha ha. isn't that cute. you just get to pay the 'jail' for an upgrade, ha ha.

i'll bet you can get a warm cookie if you cross his palm with silver, the asshole.

one prison system for the monied, another for the poor.

corruption. sickening.

[Sheldon Cooper]

3. So, if you had a 30-day sentence, it would cost you $4695 for the upgrade.

That's undoubtedly a lot of money for the average inmate, but for those with a bit more wealth, it might be possible.

[Trillo]

4. Nah. Warm cookies on the bed cost extra.

Question. Is a "warm cookie" some kind of sexual reference?

I know, sometimes a cookie is just a cookie, and a warm one just out of the oven, but is that what it is here?

Thank god there's no buns in the oven.