A Few Jail Facts for Beth

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• Jails are not fun or funny.

• Reality Shows on TV are NOT REAL.

• You would not like to be locked inside the Guilford County Jail.

• Most Guilford County Commissioners have not visited local jails in the past few years.

• Over 80 percent of inmates in Guilford County Jails are awaiting trial. (This means that they have not been convicted of the crime with which they are currently charged.)

• Conditions in the Guilford County Jail in Greensboro are disgusting. Inmates hardly have room to stand in the "day rooms" provided.

• Overcrowded jails in Guilford County are dangerous to inmates, employees and county commissioners.

• About half those held in Guilford County Jails have been in jail before or have been treated in alternative programs.

• Any fairly-intelligent person cannot believe that the general population can increase without an increase in criminal activity.

• Lack of speedy trials (a right the US Constitution guarantees) is one of the reasons for over-crowded conditions in local jails.

• Anyone accused of a crime, guilty or not, could spend some time in jail, and even an hour there is no picnic.

Reference: greensboring