Born a Crime

what’s going on. Your family can’t
pay your bail. It could even be that
the court’s backed up. “Sorry, we’re
too busy. No more hearings today.”
It doesn’t matter the reason. Once
you leave jail, you can’t go back to
jail. If your situation isn’t resolved
that day, you go to prison to await
trial. In prison you’re housed with
the people awaiting trial, not with
the general population, but even the
awaiting-trial section is incredibly
dangerous because you have people
picked up for traffic violations all
the way up to proper hardened
criminals. You’re stuck there
together, and you can be there for