Jail Vs Prison - What's The Difference?
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Jail Vs Prison - What's Actually The Difference?
Jail Vs Prison: What's ACTUALLY The Difference?
What's Actually
Things You Think You Can Do In Jail But Not In Prison
Things People Think They Can Do In Jail But Not In Prison
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"I'll pick neither"
*gets sent to the cell in the middle of the road*
fr lmao 😂
FREEDOM
sup
*get sent to the nether*
"What if we do it in the road?"
Some coworkers/friends/family I've known that have spent time in both Jail and Prison have pretty unanimously said that being in jail for long periods of time is way worse than prison.
no way, your telling that jail that's meant for a year or less time thus having less quality stuff is worse than prison which is meant for long term living thus having higher quality.
We all eatched the vid bro, u couldve just said jail is bad quality prison is good quality @Imcringe769
Bruh, I thought he was gonna say you have to stay more time in prison
what kinda mafia you work with
@Imcringe769it's because jail have moee people than prison
In NYC, you get a prison cell for 1600$ a month.
lol, true
you have to pay to get into jail? huh
@@Devuu69someone doesn’t get the joke
@@Devuu69r/wooooosh
@@foofighters938i dont get it either
Ive spent plenty of time in both. Always pick prison. They are both miserable, but atleast in prison u can work towards time off ur sentence by doing school and work. And then the other stuff mentioned in the video
But doesn't prison has more dangerous criminals?
That's golden advice. I would have thought for sure prison would be far more dangerous environment.
@@randomcommenter2941you just need to not beef with the dangers
It depends on the area. When they built the new jail on Orient rd in Tampa, it was called the Orient Hilton because it had so many amenities. Every pod had it's own basketball court with a weight rack. Several TV's. Coffee avaliable almost all day, and at most 1 other roommate. Before that though, the local jail was from the early 60's and looked like it was from the 30's.
I've never been to prison but I've visited and know people that were. Not counting the maximum security prisons, juvie hall was worse then prison or jail. I was in a fight near every other day there.
noone in the replies mentioning the spent plenty of time in both
I pick Norway.
Smartass
Nice! 😂
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5 star hotel you mean
"I"ll pick neither"
*Gets a death sentence*
Edit:It's my first comment which got so many likes, Thanks! ☺
same exact thought process
Well that escalated quickly 😂
"But all I did was jaywalk!!" TAT
Plot twist: judge is sent to jail
backrooms
House arrest
*Summary:*
Jail - safe, uncomfortable
Prison - unsafe, comfortable
It's kinda wrong. Prison is safer and more comfortable unless you are class 4 or super max for federal.
Better safe than sorry 🤷🏻♀️
wow... Have you been there before? How do you know the difference?
@@jackpowell8155 Wow... How do you know this?
I think they watched the short they were commenting under that's how they know
I had a 30 minute long argument with my mother who thought jail and prison were the same, definitely gonna send this to them
How’d it go
Them? Thought your mana was a she.
Them?
Them?
@@s6.7ss That is the forbidden lore behind his mother and we may never know
CHARGES:
-Burglary
-Grand Theft Auto
-Jaywalking
-Pineapple On Pizza
-Left Toilet Seat Up
-Not Subscribed to Law by Mike
Can't even play gta anymore
We got GTA being illegal before GTA 6
Stolen comment but ok
@@DoubleEntertainit already was a law from the 1900s
Pineapple on pizza is so good tho 😭😭😭
I've never heard anyone say, "I'm going to prison!" So happily.
I have.
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I've been to jail and prison when I was a Criminal Justice student in college, another difference is violence. There is way more violence and a higher chance at being beat up in jail than in prison.
It's wild how people assume it would be the opposite.
Throw everybody in to a lesser-segregated facility, with less shit to do, and it makes perfect sense.
How
Lol wrong a lot of stuff goes on in county but u don’t really have to worry about riots or stabbings like that. In prison they can lot someone who goes on a high speed or something to onto a level 4 maximum security yard filled with ppl who have no care for anything since they’re already doing life. Ppl are also a lot more protective of their and pay alot of attention to those who come fresh on the yard and what their papers entail. Stick to studying up on how jail and prison cus u don’t have a clue of how it really is buddy
That is the opposite of what I expected
Why is Everyone in this comment section wrong
Mike, i just got out of prison and I've been to jail for over a year a few times and I just gotta say... The beds are the same crappy mats
TF did u do
Probably arson😂😂😂
Kids in the basement?
Brother keeps going back 😭
I think he was trying to say they're SUPPOSED to be more comfortable. and honestly they probably once were, but just haven't ever been replaced since the prison will obviously allocate that budget to their pockets
They make cells more comfortable the worse your crimes are. 💀
@@ffffe-e3k what are you talking about?
@bussesandtrains1218 they're making an out of place GTA joke... I think???
@@ffffe-e3k dead internet theory and it's consequences
@@ffffe-e3k dude thinks we are living in GTA
@@attackhelicopter39 yep
An important detail that went unmentioned here is, while jail will typically be less comfortable, it also means you likely won’t have to deal with as many perpetrators of worse crimes. Safer people to live around
Not true in most states. Jails usually don't have separation for people based on the type of charge they have. They usually house inmates together regardless of severity of crime, so a petty thief may end up in the same cell/pod as someone that unalived someone. This is typically true of smaller, county jails.
In prison, there are security levels that determine which prisons an inmate goes. Severe crimes are ranked higher, and usually house inmates of similar crimes together, while low level prisons house less severe crimes.
Wrong
This is untrue. Jail has very little order and structure. There is always people trying to prove themselves and very close quarters.
Some guy I knew a while back told me that someone he knew had went to jail for a few days or weeks idk. However, he said that all they did was play cards and got good at Gin rummy lol
He did mention this though 💀
Summary: Jail - safe but uncomfortable.
Prison - unsafe, comfortable.
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Having 24/7 surveillance could actually save your life while in the case of jail not having it could cost you your life.
[EDIT] Holy cow! 4k and 9 comments?! Thank you so much.
If I was in this situation which never but hypothetically if I was I'd probaby choose prison so if something happened there'd be evidence to back it up. Might be more dangerous with worse criminals but I'd take my chances. Also with being able to do stuff
Prison is far more dangerous. There’s little to no chance you’ll get raped in jail.
You forget when the tapes are “mysteriously” erased 💀
@@tlomofficial dude in jail it is WAY worse, I’ve heard stories of people being held in jail and they they just mysteriously “hanged” themselves, no one questioned it cuz there’s no surveillance, in prison if it gets wiped at least they’ll have that excuse.
1yr of jail or lifetime prison 😊
“I’ll pick neither” *gets a free fight with the PERFECT cell*
Perfect?
I see what you did there
How perfect?
say that again
You're either Perfect, or you're not me.
"I will pick neither"
Famous last word.
this meme format sucks
“Fine by me. Straight to the chair!”
bro thinks hes funny
@@Dimii_1fr
The famous last word is at 0:59
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My ex fiancé loved jail. He kept returning there all the time. I honestly believe he enjoyed being in jail more than being in the outside world. And honestly they had a flat screen tv, books to read, plenty of other people he got along with. He was happy.
Im confused on how you willingly got engaged to someone who loves jail
Tf
I second on @@nickrafacz6313's comment
You mean prison right? I mean, I get that if people haven't been to either, they get it wrong. But as a comment on the video that literally just explained the difference? Really?
Are you mental
CHARGES:
- Burglary
- Grand Theft Auto
- Jaywalking
- Pineapple On Pizza
- Left Toilet Seat Up
- Not Subscribed To Law By Mike
Man he must be one dangerous criminal 😰
How many counts of gta? Perhaps.... *5?*
@@Se4rchlight Yes, it would take a few centuries to get another count of GTA
@@Lutimboy Did he perhaps commit GTA in Vice City and San Andreas?
Pineapple on pizza should be the death penalty 😁
probably he did. but he might have done it in san fierro too
one of your videos helped me anwser one of my friends questions during history is school.thank you so much for posting
If you are a strong dude that nobody will mess with then prison is basically free living
I guess but you'll have to be in fear of your cell mate or others trying to kill you
@@Crazydave8201but theirs higher security and 24 hour surveillance
@number1frankoceanfan you think that’ll matter someone pulls a shank while you walk by?
Probably but you will be tested tho, by other inmates
@number1frankoceanfan And yet more people get killed by prison than jail. Funny that
Usually you don't get a choice. The judge tells you where you'll be going based on your sentence and time served. Plus after you are in the system they can choose to transfer you (often for your own safety). Source, wife worked both jails and prisons for 5+ years
Yeah it's the point of the video, he did it like that to explain both
Hartford county jail sucked. I was sentenced to 6 days for a minor alcohol related charge but served 84 days. Was never given a reason to this day. Food was rotted and moldy, bed mats were loaded with lice and bedbugs, only 1 of the 4 showers worked and had zero hot water, only 2 toilets, and i was in there during a heat wave where the prison refused to turn on the air, it was literally 120 in that dorm. The experience was so bad it made me rethink my life and i havent been back since. That was 2008.
Hartford as in Hartford Connecticut?! Because that’s the city I live in!
@erikaceleb yes. HCC, Down the street from the xfinity theater.
Well, in hindsight, it served its purpose. Glad you're good now
Damn, that's lawsuit level of horrible. Glad you're doing better now to avoid the damned place.
You don't sue back or something?
I love your videos keep up the good work!
Also don’t forget, in prison especially in a place like South Africa, you can easily get killed
It’s based on the laws of the United States, and it’s not as if criminals actually get a choice between the two
absolutely no one is talking about south africa or the african continent, literally a video about U.S. law system
@@readreadthedeadredguy4932 You think the U.S. is the only country in the world with Jails and Prisons? lol
In prison: " I lied...don't move don't move..."😂😂
You lost 😂😂😂
Boondocks?😂
@@gonemenyatso1154 tra rags
@@boredguy117 oh okayy
it's over
Learning Jail and prison are not the same thing gave me the same level of cultural shock when I realized restaurant and hotel are different.
You.... thought a hotel and a restaurant were the same thing?
@@Se4rchlightas a kid yes, my parents often used "lets go to a good hotel to eat". Not just then even in media many reality shows used hotel as a place to eat instead of restaurant.
Prison and jail are similar but restaurant and hotel are so different how did u mix them up like that 😭
Restaurant is for eating hotel is for staying its not the same thing
@@devam8192 oh. That's weird, I've never heard anything like that. Probably because I always used the internet instead of cable
In some non US countries jails also give you hall passes called Temporary Absence Passes, sometimes for weekends and sometimes during the day and sometimes it's house arrest but you need to check in every once in a while depending on your agreement, depending on the jurisdiction. Not everyone needs to spend all day in a prison and it saves those countries without for profit prisons a lot of money only having to house an inmate during the night, during the weekend or not at all sometimes.
These are also only for minor crimes, don't expect a hallpass if you're a murderer or something
There are siimilar opportunities in the states, for lesser crimes, such as having to attend jail on the weekends, and working during the week.
Joe: "Jail isn't prison. Prison is big and scary. Jail is just a room with keys that can be grabbed by a long broom handle or a mischievous dog."
Cleveland: "Do black people ever go to jail?"
Joe: "No, they go to prison."
If a police asked me this, I would definitely go for jail…
"I'll pick either!"
*Gets send to a cell with low quality bedding, with a lot of guards, nothing to do while you wait and get sentenced in that cell for lifetime*
Neither does not mean both combined. Don’t be stupid.
@@Savannah-qb4bbIt’s simply a joke
@@Savannah-qb4bb It's a joke
Maximum security prisons
That’s called solitary
Hey Mike message from a person who is watching this from a prison in florida : love your content my boy ! Wish I would have found u earlier
How are you watching him from prison?
@@renadahmed2256 I know
@@NahomiNeshnega nobody cares
Yo wassup from the Philippines whats your fb? Wanna see what it's like there
You've got a phone?😮
Ive never heard someone say “im going to prison!“ so happily
😂😂😂
Ya stole that from someone else's comment. 😂
Thanks for the information cuh
"I'll pick neither!"
**Danganronpa Execution music plays**
hmmmmmm
a body has been discovered
@cosmicfloweyYT BING BONG DING DONG! A BODY HAS BEEN DISCOVERED! :3
Danganronpa fan spotted c:
@ Hello :3 very interesting username.
some of this is actually lowk useful for my criminal justice studies rn it's making it way easier to memorize the book facts because i can just think about the videos and go "oh shit i remember now" (:
I sometimes forget that mike is actually a lawyer and not just a funny youtube man
I never thought I’d hear someone say “I’m going to prison,” in a joyful way where it actually makes sense
Prison should have a library.
Right? Isnt it better to give criminals the option to learn and gain intelligence rather than... u know... make them stronger
I genuinely feel so happy watching your vids. They're so cartoonish but so informative and real. Keep it up.
You are actually the best TH-camr and lawyer
Charges:
Burglary
GRAND THEFT AUTO
Jaywalking
Pineapple on pizza
Left toilet seat up
Not subscribed by Law by Mike!!!
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Why is he one of the most dangerous prisoners?😂😂😂😂
Love your vids
Don't worry that's not a dangerous prisoner. That's my brother at 3am
Lol
Never knew jail and prison were different things until now
Not subscribing to LawByMike is truly a crime😂
From now on I would annoy my friend saying "Do you wanna go to Jail or Prison?"
That "Charges" got me 😂
Don't forget that in prison, especially in a place like South Africa, you can easily be killed.
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Why South Africa?
The phuck is this profile
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@@VovaKim-e9l sorry I don’t speak gibberish
The official difference:
Jail = county facility, typically for serving sentences of a year or less. Typically located in the seat of the county, sometimes right next to the courthouse.
Prison = state facility, typically for serving sentences of a more than a year. Typically located in rural areas. They’re also usually organized by low, medium, and high security. Some may hold all security levels, others are for one level only.
At the federal level, there are “detention centers” which are like jail, and federal prisons.
Defiantly prison no question
Having more savalence is better to keep you safe
Prison with defiance?
Always depends on many factors. In a big busy county prison might be better than jail bc so many guys coming through on bail and short time means lots of tempers and variables whereas prison would be a tad more stable though with serious choices to be made that have long term repercussions.
A smaller county, the jail might be better if it’s a low crime county and that’s better than prison which are run by the state.
*surveillance - that's not even close to the correct spelling!
@ bro I tried 😭
They don't watch them cameras lol.
These videos are so addicting❤
What about prison and school
Hardest one ngl
Let me think:
I know school cause I can just do online school!
Maybe prison
You’re so smart I like your I love your videos so much every time I see that I will watch them thank you, Mike.
Never seen someone say
“I’m going to prison”so happily
Our county jail has a TV in every cell it's a pod so there are many cells you get your own tablet that you can text FaceTime and learn is honestly not that bad
I wanted to know this for so long. But if I recall correctly, I just got vague answers and I eventually just assumed they were synonyms... Appears they were not! I like to have finally learned the difference now. _AWESOME VIDEO._
After reading the charges and enjoying Mike's videos for a few months, I have finally Subscribed.
“I’ll pick neither” gets crucified
The way mike explained prison almost made it sound like a vacation and one of the best places on earth💀💀☠️☠️
Mike whipped out his roleplay costume for the criminal outfit
Same as what’s the difference with school and prison{no differences}
Go back to r/teenagers kiddo. And do your homework.
Except bedding.
No, school gives you homework. Which should be equal to a few life times in prison
Prison cares for you and wants you to feel good
The food is better and more nutritious in prison.
Keep the good work up👌🙏
Prison food is usually better than jail food. Plus in prison you share a room and a toilet with a bunkee. In jail you might share a large room and a row of toilets with 50 people. Sometimes there's not enough beds and you sleep on a mat on the floor.
Nice to learn these
Bro i just can't, bro this video is amazing! Keep it up!
"I'll pick neither"
One death sentence later.....
I know I should not lol... ( laughs aloud.)
That "dangerous" criminal charge are
-burglary
-Grand theft auto
-Jaywalking
-Pineapple on pizza
-Left toilet seats up
-Not subscribed to law by mike
Got me laughing
No comments? That's crazy lol.
NPC
2 comments? That's crazy lol
I LOVE YOUR VIDS!❤
Best explanation of english wording prison & jail! Now, i have learned much more english!! Thanks, bro! 😮🤷♂️
Do a video on what’s the difference between jail and school
Guns aren't allowed in jail.
That dude kept the left toilet seat up… prison isn’t enough.
Turkey: Prison or jail difference? Screw it! We got Silivri. And it is pretty cold...
Could you do a video on what constitutes ‘in public’ as it relates to video taping people.
Judge really said, Nice try Diddy💀
Lol
I built a 600 inmate jail with a 40x20ft indoor exercise yard. No windows. That place was horrifically small.
On Minecraft ?
This is the earliest I've gotten one of your videos
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@blastedsolid4020 no, my dear boy. I was shot
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@blastedsolid4020 yes Indeed lumbago may be a slow and painful death, but it brought me back to life
@ thank god, i hope they find a cure to the lumbago so you and One-Shot Kid can stop suffering
I go to prison and then turn in to Michael Scofield 💀
I thought those were the same thing💀
As a retired CO. The biggest difference I’ve been told by career convicts is visitations. Being able to see family or not can absolutely change or break people.
Jails are usually closer to family members if you live in the same city or county, so you can see them more often. But generally you have to talk behind glass windows and no physical contact.
Prisons can be anywhere in the state or county. So you will have less visitation or maybe never depending how faraway you are. But most prisons have physical contact so you can be closer when visiting.
If it’s the same amount of time, I’d pick prison
I’d pick jail, less chance of being killed, more dangerous prisoners in prison that might have life in there so they don’t care about fighting
How about house arrest? like Can people come visit? What aren't you allowed to do?(besides leave Obviously..)
Jail, as long as I have no cell mate, I’ll just lay in bed and meditate
True, I would go crazy with a cell mate.
True, become the bhudda fr
I’ll pick neither!
So he wants the electric chair.
-famous last words
I loved how ‘Pineapple on Pizza’ was one of the crimes listed, and it seems pretty reasonable to me.
You're the best lullaby Mike
Prison seems like the overall better choice
There are more dangerous people in prison though prisons nowadays separate people who are in for more than 10 years away from people who are there for less than 10 years.
Huh… cool 👍
The amount of times I've explained this to people is exhausting. I'm glad people are being educated.
-GTA
-Leaving the soilet seat up
- Not subscribed to law by Mike 😲
- Pineapple on pizza
*What a menace!*
It's menace, not mennace.
My fault
I thought prison was just another word for jail
alright thats nice now heres a brownie recepie
· Sugar: These easy brownies start with two cups of white sugar.
· Flour: All-purpose flour creates structure in the batter.
· Butter: Two sticks of melted butter give the brownies moisture and richness.
· Eggs: Eggs lend even more moisture. Plus, they help bind the batter together.
· Cocoa powder: Of course, you'll need cocoa powder for chocolate brownies!
· Vanilla: Vanilla extract enhances the overall flavor of the brownies.
· Baking powder: Baking powder acts as a leavener, which means it helps the brownies rise.
· Salt: A pinch of salt enhances the flavors of the other ingredients.
· Walnuts: Nuts are optional, of course, but they add a welcome crunch.
All time fav dessert 😋
Subscribing to a lawyer in prison is crazy
I'd choose prison
Prison is actually a vibe tho🔥👌
Can you differentiate between Kill and Murder ??
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My question was finally answered
Jails also house those waiting for trial/pending trial
Lowkey prison sounds fire 🔥🔥🔥