I am a convicted felon. I have done time in both jail and prison AND I have been under house arrest.

Jail: Jail is bad, but everyone there is in your same situation. Everybody there misses their house, everybody there misses their family and everybody there knows exactly what you are going thru & feeling.

Prison: I stood 45 days in jail, waiting for "room" at the prison. I thought jail was bad and it was, but prison is the major leagues. 100mph fastballs compared to 65mph fastballs. In jail you had normal every day criminals like grand theft auto, marijuana, bank robbery (with a note not a weapon), drunken disorderly, etc. In mufuggin prison, you got rapists, multiple murderers, child molesters, arsonists, etc.

House Arrest: When you are under house arrest, it's the biggest torture of them all. The world keeps going and you can't. Not allowed more then 100' from the base unit (electronic monitoring device connected to the phone). Friends can come over, but they don't because you can't leave. New movie comes out, you can't see it. Take the dog for a walk? Never fucking happen. Mailbox is as far as you can go, unless your mailbox is at the curb. Nobody knows what you are going through. Nobody gives a shit and you feel like you are the living dead. You can see the world, you just can't participate.

Now, don't get me wrong I'll take house arrest over jail any day for a few simple reasons.

1) I get to have a REAL woman sleeping in my bed. I was married when I was given house arrest and I got to sleep with my woman.

2) If you have kids, you get to see them and play with them and be with them and tuck them in or save them from the closet monster.

3) You are allowed to go to work, to doctors appointments, to legal appointments, etc. So because I own my own company I was able to rig my paperowrk so I can work 12 hours a day.

House arrest is better then jail, but it's also torture. I can't explain it if you've never been thru it. Anybody that's been thru it can relate to what I'm talking about.

OH and there are random drug/alcohol tests. Fail and baddabing you go to jail.
Tony1234567890 Reviewed by Tony1234567890 on . which would you rather do, jail or house-arrest? let's say you had to choose between a 45-day jail sentence and a 90-day house arrest, double the length... how many of you'd pick jail to get it over sooner? Rating: 5