Anybody else been in jail/have a criminal record?

[Jakexe]

How do you have a record but no convictions?

First was a drug charge, found guilty no conviction record.
2nd was assault, found guilty no conviction recorded.
3rd was affray, found not guilty.

As far as I am aware all those are still on the record but they don't get pulled up for standard job interviews etc. Only for high security positions (ala government/child care). They still very much exist on my arrest record as I was given a good behaviour bond that I didn't break so I didn't get a conviction.

I'm honestly not 100% sure how it works, been nearly 10 years since I went through all that. I *think* after 10 years with no law breaking they get removed from the record all together.

[Silver Forte]

Of course not. I'm a law abiding citizen.

Then why did you post here? Just to wax your own knob by letting everyone know how much of a good boy you are?

[Tommi]

Then why did you post here? Just to wax your own knob by letting everyone know how much of a good boy you are?

I find that ignoring Tennisace improves MMO-Champion by at least 10 times. If only it ignored topics he creates as well.

[PACOX]

Nope, Im not a thug. I obey the law.

You do realize that you can spend time in jail without being found guilty of anything right?

[vindicatorx]

I think jails and prison is worse in USA rather than UK where I was.

No, jail in the UK is much more harsh than in the US. I'm an Ex-DOC corrections officer and I can tell you what us Prison is like. Most of the inmates make it seem kinda like a sleepover summer camp they have friends they hang out with and play card games with, they sit around and watch TV which ironically the favorite show I saw them watch was locked up. They eat 3 decent meals a day, have access to showers and the outdoor recreation area and during inclement weather the indoor facilities. Most don't really seem to mind being in prison except for around holidays and visitation days. Most days they seem to enjoy it and I mean why wouldn't they? They have no responsibilities and no worries.

[Adréal]

Okay. I've never used marijuana. I'm going to therefore put that into the category of personal choice. In which case, my question is still relevant - why would one choose to do something they know is illegal and has significant consequences? What is the actual motivation here?

I think the point was that the "seriousness" of the law shouldn't fluctuate from one extreme to the other, simply based on your location.

I've never used any illicit substances either, but surely there's something wrong if millions of people can safely (and legally) use something that happens to be classified as an illegal drug in another area, especially when it's within the same country? Yet merely stepping over a line drawn on a map changes your actions from something that is harming no one, to a heinous crime that may ruin your life.

[vindicatorx]

You do realize that you can spend time in jail without being found guilty of anything right?

I mean they can hold you to process you but you wouldn't be put into general population jail unless you had been booked.

[Zyster]

Do you ever speed?

No
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[schwarzkopf]

I got locked up in hospital for 4 hours around 4 months ago ... does that count ?

[Eon Drache]

Yep! My mom made a false testimony against me when I was 17 to teach me a lesson I was then convicted at 18 for assulting my 17 yr old son! Fun times.

[Ilir]

Didn't intend to break any law but do stupid things after been drinking like getting into fights. That's what happened me both times to end up in jail and other times just getting arrested.

And that's why you should be forbidden to drink alcohol.

if you can't control how much you drink, don't drink.

[TITAN308]

No.

I only have 3 moving violations over 30 years.

My last traffic ticket they basically cut the fine in half because my record is almost nothing.

[Atrea]

That's silly. Some people are criminals. Some people murder, rape, steal etc. Don't lump us law abiding citizens in with them.

No, people aren't lumped into two categories of "criminals" and "law-abiding citizens".
Everyone is a law-abiding citizen until they aren't. Some people break the law regularly, some people do it very infrequently, some people have a very convoluted line of thought that somehow makes what they do "not illegal" even though by the letter of the law it is -- but everyone has the potential.

There's no black and white to it.

Any person - ANY person - can break a law, if the circumstances dictate it.

Scenario:

You are driving your very pregnant wife to the hospital, to give birth. She needs to get there PRONTO. She's screaming. You're panicked.
Ordinarily, you're a great driver - never speed, always obey the speed limits, that sort of thing. But in your haste, you accidentally blow a stop sign.

No one is hurt. No one saw. But you still technically broke the law.

Don't feed me the whole, "I'm a law-abiding citizen" line of shit. You obey the laws as best as you can, and nobody is perfect.
No one is saying you're a rapist, or a murderer, or a thief; but neither is everyone who breaks the law. Some people make a really bad choice - only once, even - and learn from their mistake. Hopefully, anyway.

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Yep! My mom made a false testimony against me when I was 17 to teach me a lesson I was then convicted at 18 for assulting my 17 yr old son! Fun times.

So I have to ask.

How exactly did you have a 17 year old son at 18?

[Eon Drache]

No, people aren't lumped into two categories of "criminals" and "law-abiding citizens".
Everyone is a law-abiding citizen until they aren't. Some people break the law regularly, some people do it very infrequently, some people have a very convoluted line of thought that somehow makes what they do "not illegal" even though by the letter of the law it is -- but everyone has the potential.

There's no black and white to it.

Any person - ANY person - can break a law, if the circumstances dictate it.

Scenario:

You are driving your very pregnant wife to the hospital, to give birth. She needs to get there PRONTO. She's screaming. You're panicked.
Ordinarily, you're a great driver - never speed, always obey the speed limits, that sort of thing. But in your haste, you accidentally blow a stop sign.

No one is hurt. No one saw. But you still technically broke the law.

Don't feed me the whole, "I'm a law-abiding citizen" line of shit. You obey the laws as best as you can, and nobody is perfect.
No one is saying you're a rapist, or a murderer, or a thief; but neither is everyone who breaks the law. Some people make a really bad choice - only once, even - and learn from their mistake. Hopefully, anyway.

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So I have to ask.

How exactly did you have a 17 year old son at 18?

Cops never talked to anyone other than my mom to make the arrest so when she said her son the cops put him down as my son. Shockingly no one ever caught it until after the fact. The charge was always read as domestic assault. It was caught when I went to apply for a job and the employer saw it.

[SL1200]

Last time I was in Jail. There was an old man in the cell block. Guy in his sixtys. They caught him carrying his wife's chopped up body to his car in garbage bags. That was the rumor anyway.

[Airwaves]

Any person - ANY person - can break a law, if the circumstances dictate it.

Shit. If anyone has driven a car atleast more then once in their life they have broken a law at some point. Everyone makes mistakes drivings. Anyone who says they have not speed before is lying.

[Polygons]

No, but I've come close once or twice and one time had a cop escort me back to school for skipping class. He walked me through the main office, reported me, then took me to class where he announced to everyone what I did. It didn't help that the reason I was skipping class was because I had accidentally eaten a weed brownie that morning (never had one before) got paranoid and tried to go home. That's when the cop pulled me over. Somehow he didn't know and he drove me back in the passenger seat while I clenched my butt hole.

[Heladys]

I really hope i never go back as it is a waste of life.

Don't "hope" you don't go back, don't fuck up and do shit to get sent back.

[Yunru]

Nope. Never got caught.

[Deleted]

Nope, even though I love breaking all kinds of "self imposed" laws some people have made up, thinking they're some sort of authority, I've never broken any actual laws.

As for OPs motive of asking this, I don't think they mean to use small time criminals for building that wall. If it were to happen, it would be maximum security prisoners mostly likely.