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RE: Spending the night in jail
Posted by:
AL Wellman
()
Date: January 16, 2001 07:55PM
<HTML>Craig -
Some rural counties in the United States had a practice of allowing persons without shelter and money to use the jail temporarily if capacity was available. A few of my high school classmates took advantage of such accommodations when their car broke down on a trip in the 1960\'s. It was a warm, dry place to sleep; but individual practices varied with regard to locking \"guests\" in after hours. There aren\'t many publicly owned beds in rural America, and the US constitution discourages berthing military men in private homes. Spending the night in a jail bunk might have been more comfortable than sleeping on the floor of a local school. =AL=</HTML>
Some rural counties in the United States had a practice of allowing persons without shelter and money to use the jail temporarily if capacity was available. A few of my high school classmates took advantage of such accommodations when their car broke down on a trip in the 1960\'s. It was a warm, dry place to sleep; but individual practices varied with regard to locking \"guests\" in after hours. There aren\'t many publicly owned beds in rural America, and the US constitution discourages berthing military men in private homes. Spending the night in a jail bunk might have been more comfortable than sleeping on the floor of a local school. =AL=</HTML>
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