re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

We have a pain pill mill doctor serving his state prison sentence in our local county lockup. Our county jail gets paid to house non-violent out-of-county prisoners.
In this particular case, it’s not white privilege (the doctor is black), it’s just business. He’s also part of the local supervised work-release group (he worked at our local food pantry when I was involved there). O_o

That’s the complete opposite of how things are done in Virginia. Here the jails try to get the people in the Department of Corrections’ custody as soon as possible so they don’t have to deal with them. DOC will, usually, only take custody of prisoners with above a year of active sentence but has to pay the jail their costs for any convicted felon once a sentencing order has been entered into the court records and transmitted to DOC.