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Luxury California Jail Offers $155 A Night For A Quality Stay
Perhaps money can’t buy you love. But in one Alameda County jail, it can buy you a comfier stay.
The Fremont police department now offers a “pay-to-stay” option for inmates who wish to stay in its facilities to avoid the rowdier county jails of Oakland or Dublin.
For $155 a day, inmates ordered to short jail stints can opt to stay in the “smaller, quieter” Fremont facility away from the county jail population, said Lt. Mark Devine, who oversees the program.
Include the one-time fee of $45, and the cost is similar to that of a three-star hotel. But make no mistakes, said Devine, it is still a jail:
“You do get cable TV, but you don’t get a warm cookie on your bed.”
The option is a good alternative for those charged with misdemeanors and have a jail sentence of ten days or less, said Devine.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/27/california-prison-offers-quieter-stay-for-155-a-day/
The Fremont police department now offers a “pay-to-stay” option for inmates who wish to stay in its facilities to avoid the rowdier county jails of Oakland or Dublin.
For $155 a day, inmates ordered to short jail stints can opt to stay in the “smaller, quieter” Fremont facility away from the county jail population, said Lt. Mark Devine, who oversees the program.
Include the one-time fee of $45, and the cost is similar to that of a three-star hotel. But make no mistakes, said Devine, it is still a jail:
“You do get cable TV, but you don’t get a warm cookie on your bed.”
The option is a good alternative for those charged with misdemeanors and have a jail sentence of ten days or less, said Devine.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/27/california-prison-offers-quieter-stay-for-155-a-day/
Man those cells look nicer than most hotels I've stayed in New York!
