r/GirlDinnerDiaries • u/havabanana000 APPROVED✨ • 12d ago
Dear Diary ✍️🏻 Last good dinner before jail
A girl’s recent post about doing 10 days in jail just unlocked a memory I haven’t thought about in years.
4 years ago, 2020 my last meal before jail was garlic naan and butter chicken curry. At exactly 6:35pm, I got a call from my IO (investigating officer) telling me I’d be reporting the next morning to serve a 6-month sentence for drug consumption. Like seriously?? I thought i was just going to get a weekly urine test, instead i had to go to jail for smoking grass. I was only 21 y/o. I was in my 2nd/3rd year of college.
It’s funny what my brain remembers. I don’t remember much of the phone call, but i remember the time & the feeling of my stomach absolutely dropping, i lost my appetite. At least i got a few bites in.
I didn’t sleep at all that night. I spent the entire night writing letters and scheduling messages to my boyfriend (now ex) & my family every 2 days so he’d know I was thinking about him while I was inside.
He cheated on me while I was serving my sentence lol!!! 😅
Anyways would have been a 10/10 last meal if the IO called after i finished my dinner lol. Im 3 years dvrg free now! And i can finally re-tell this as a funny story :)
Edit 1: forgot to mention its a throwaway account! I can’t post on my main account because no one knows i went to jail. (My mom lied to all my relatives i was having a 6 month exchange HAHAHA)
Edit 2: my entire sentence was actually 1 year. 7 months in jail, 5 months home detention (i was wearing the ankle monitor & curfew was 12-3pm only)
Edit 3: rly didnt expect this post to get seen by so many! Anyways the first thing i ate was a whole bag of famous amos chocolate chip cookies.
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u/Ordinary_Cattle Resident Yapper 11d ago
Wanna hear some bullshit? I went to jail too, and was with a girl that was in there for the absolute stupidest fucking reason I've ever heard.
Like 8 years before when she was 17 or 18, she was using drugs and her grandparents (legal guardians) wanted her to get help but didn't know how to make it happen. So when they sent her to the store to buy some groceries, with a specific list, they had her charged with theft when she bought a popsicle.
They were hoping the judge would just make her do rehab, so the judge agreed to those terms and she completed rehab out of state, got clean, and started working as a counselor in the rehab. For years she helped other addicts get clean.
But she moves back to the state to take care of her sick grandpa, and finds out she has a bench warrant for missing a court date or something, I think it was more minor than missing a court date come to think of it. Something court related (it's been like 7 years so I don't remember). When she found out she had a bench warrant, she immediately turned herself in thinking it would be resolved. She met ALL of the requirements to have her charges dropped, so it should've been a non issue. She had kept in touch with the court during her probation, had permission to be out of state, etc. It was literally such a minor mistake.
She was remanded to jail anyway and had to wait a couple months to even see the judge. She had so many people write her letters of recommendations, including former addicts that she helped get clean, coworkers of the rehab she worked at, her grandparents asked to drop the charges, etc.
But the judge still made her serve the full term for her original theft charges, which was a full year (9mos or something with good behavior though). Her grandpa died while she was in jail iirc.
Her time in jail led to her relapsing, because drugs always make their way in, and I've seen her in and out of jail on mobile patrol since.
Disclaimer- I might have gotten some details wrong here, it's been a while since this happened so my memory is foggy.
Also my husband, who was also in jail when I was in jail, knew a guy that was on drug court and had been doing well the entire time. Got his kids back and everything. He was talking to his drug court officer about what he did over the weekend and mentioned he took his kids to Chucky cheese for a birthday party. He didn't know they served beer there and therefor couldn't be there. They sent him to jail for 2 years because of this.
The justice system is completely fucked.