I'm not saying that there are not some horrible Activities going on in jails. Police Brutality is a problem, the fact that there is no Independent board in order to allow or deny disciplinary action when trying to figure out what happened in any given situation.
And if you go to jail your first time, you are like "Oh my God, job, and what will my family think... 15 days for a class B Misedemeanor??!?!??! I can't do that" and they always accept like 2 years probation, which hardly anyone finishes, over the 15 days time served.
But if you aren't just a scared, quiet and especially uppity white boy. Then everything is fine. If you just chill with everyone, play some dominoes, trade/gamble some food. And if you are white try to avoid adding anything to the Wood Pile, when you start a white person sharing circle it becomes racist.
There's no (not supposed to be) any drugs or alcohol. Food is money.
But you get to meet tons of people. Just collect numbers and facebooks, etc. And if you can bail anyone out you can help someone out in a way that builds trust. If you can't bail anyone out, put money on someone's books. Jail is actually a good place to find people who are ready to get started with some large scale stuff, and a lot of them.
And in State Jail people say Commissary is like Groceries, and the Inmates run the jail by a 30/1 ratio or something like that, maybe more.
There's just a bunch of dudes (or just a bunch of girl if you are a girl), that, the lack of drugs, the rations of food, the inability to leave or break from routine, not wear you own clothes, some people are nasty, some people are loud all the time, etc. but thpse are the only real problems.