My mom did ten years in prison for a probation violation. She was out for time served for the original crime, a whopping 8 months for murder. But ten years for being neighbors with a notorious narc that rolled over on everyone when he was busted.
She was busted for the probation thing when I was 15 and released when I was 25. Luckily she didn’t really have any bills to pay since… ten years and all that was pretty much irrelevant.
Here is the best part. She is just now getting off probation in March. They charged her for probation for the last eight years. About 1200 per year. So we are frantically trying to come up with money to pay the fine since not paying it could land her back in jail for another ten years. If that happens she will die in there.
Don’t even get me started on prisons being owned by for profit corporations.