Anyone know

[starrkers]

what time of day people are usually released from prison?

 

[Liar]

Depends on where yu live I guess. In Sweden it's usually at 9 in the morning. So that if the prisoner needs to travel across country to get home, he'll get there the same day.

 

[slyc_willie]

I've known a few people who were incarcerated, and three of the four of them had been released by noon on their scheduled day. Most likely for reasons similar to what Liar stated. One, however, was not released until almost nine o'clock at night, due to a bureaucratic mix-up. Good thing the buses were still running.

In some states, ex-cons are given a check by the state -- usually around a hundred dollars -- as a gesture of helping them get back on their feet. Enough for a six pack, a hooker, and a cheap motel room, as one friend of mine put it.

 

[starrkers]

Cool. That's basically what I thought. Just wanted to check.
Only person I've known in jail was my brother, and I didn't give a damn when he got out, except to know to watch out.

 

[oggbashan]

If the prisoner is a high profile one, such as Lord Archer, the UK prison authorities can release at any time to avoid the media, or transfer the prisoner to another site the day before release.

Og

 

[starrkers]

My character isn't famous.
I just needed to know that a morning departure was OK, for the letter her old cell mate wrote to her that night.

 

[Weird Harold]

what time of day people are usually released from prison?

I suspect they start outprocessing them at "dawn" -- or whenever the administrative clerks come to work -- so the releases would be spread out over whatever time it takes to process a prisoner's paperwork times however many prisioners are due for release that day.

 

[emap]

Jails start releasing at 7 AM, I would assume a prison would be the same time. Well in practice it is actually 7:05 and onward, they don't just let em out en masse, each one has to sign a form and collect whatever was taken away.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

In the case of LA County, it depends on the particular prisoner and the time the press arrives to cover the release

 

[elfin_odalisque]

In the case of LA County, it depends on the particular prisoner and the time the press arrives to cover the release

Cynic.

 

[R. Richard]

In most places that the scumbags are able to read a bus/train schedule, some sort of effort is made to release prisoners so that they can catch a bus/train after a not unreasonable wait. The concern is not for the released prisoner, but to avoid having a lot of ex-cons hanging around the bus/train stop at any one time.

 

[colddiesel]

If the prisoner is a high profile one, such as Lord Archer, the UK prison authorities can release at any time to avoid the media, or transfer the prisoner to another site the day before release.

Og

One of my great uncles was a prison Governor in the UK for thirty years from the thirties through to the sixties. His last two prisons both had gallows for hangings. If a hanging was scheduled it was always between 8 and 8.30am and any prisoners due for release that day were released a day early usually fairly early in the morning. That was to avoid the media scrum which occurred on a hanging morning.

 

[emap]

I may be wrong in certain states and countries, but as far as I know, a prison does not get bus services besides the bus the state uses to put prisoners in prison. They run every day and they usually are at a prison at a certain time every day, though I believe the weekends they don't run.

A just released prisoner gets to pick, either walk out the gate and hope for a ride or take the bus to the next town in the buses route. In Arizona especially, the closest actual town is at least ten miles, some prisons are actually closer to 50 miles.

 

[Weird Harold]

I may be wrong in certain states and countries, but as far as I know, a prison does not get bus services besides the bus the state uses to put prisoners in prison. They run every day and they usually are at a prison at a certain time every day, though I believe the weekends they don't run.

Good point, but the Bus/Train schedules mentioned earlier weren't for service to the prison, but to the town the prisons are located in.

A just released prisoner gets to pick, either walk out the gate and hope for a ride or take the bus to the next town in the buses route. In Arizona especially, the closest actual town is at least ten miles, some prisons are actually closer to 50 miles.

Prison Location is definitely a consideration. I'm sure that places like the Nevada State Prison near Indian Springs won't let prisoners just walk out the door hoping for a ride -- the highways nearby are posted with warnings about picking up hitchhikers for ten miles in every direcion.

I think prisoners from there are brought back into Las Vegas a day or two before their release date and out-processed at the Courthouse -- where they can be literally turned out on the street with the traditional "new suit and ten dollars." (the Courthouse here is within easy walking distance of the CAT bus terminal or the Greyhound bus terminal.)

I think for Starkkers story purposes, whatever scenario best fits her plot needs will work as long as it fits logically into the logistics of the prison location and the mindset of bureacrats everywhere.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Good point, but the Bus/Train schedules mentioned earlier weren't for service to the prison, but to the town the prisons are located in.



Prison Location is definitely a consideration. I'm sure that places like the Nevada State Prison near Indian Springs won't let prisoners just walk out the door hoping for a ride -- the highways nearby are posted with warnings about picking up hitchhikers for ten miles in every direcion.

I think prisoners from there are brought back into Las Vegas a day or two before their release date and out-processed at the Courthouse -- where they can be literally turned out on the street with the traditional "new suit and ten dollars." (the Courthouse here is within easy walking distance of the CAT bus terminal or the Greyhound bus terminal.)

I think for Starkkers story purposes, whatever scenario best fits her plot needs will work as long as it fits logically into the logistics of the prison location and the mindset of bureacrats everywhere.

Yes Harold, I saw some movie where it was like that. The prisoner would get his final parole, probation, and warnings from a judge back at the courthouse before release.

Other movies they just walk out of prison, maybe what starrkers might need for the story would be the character gets some final parole instructions or something and walks out free from the courthouse, and, maybe for the story the court appointed attorney has an insatiable sex drive, works for me.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Around here theyre released just before supper.

 

[emap]

Ummm James, I don't mean to sound rude or anything, but you really gotta go see a doctor about the growth on your face.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

EMAP

Stare at my boobs, then. Or my ass

 

[MarshAlien]

In most places that the scumbags are able to read a bus/train schedule, some sort of effort is made to release prisoners so that they can catch a bus/train after a not unreasonable wait. The concern is not for the released prisoner, but to avoid having a lot of ex-cons hanging around the bus/train stop at any one time.

By scumbags you mean those individuals who have paid their debt to society and are entitled to be allowed to serve a productive and useful life once more?

Don't mind me; my sole purpose in posting here is to drive the Scouries post further down the page. It's sort of a mission. Or a quest. That's it, a quest.

 

[emap]

Ooo go Marsh go.

James you have breasts? And here I thought you were a normal straight guy.

 

[impressive]

what time of day people are usually released from prison?

I don't know the answer, but I found it a damned interesting question.

 

[starrkers]

By scumbags you mean those individuals who have paid their debt to society and are entitled to be allowed to serve a productive and useful life once more?

Don't mind me; my sole purpose in posting here is to drive the Scouries post further down the page. It's sort of a mission. Or a quest. That's it, a quest.

A worthy quest.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Cons pay their debt to society?

Then how about this idea...if cons really pay their debt to society...I'll do the jail-time first, then murder my victim? Is this agreeable to you if youre my intended victim?

Or....I'll do a few years in the pokey then steal your pension fund.