How long is a year in jail?

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asked Dec 26, 2021 in Law/Ethics by figgynewton (1,180 points)
How long is a year in jail?

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answered Dec 26, 2021 by Aarttoos (2,910 points)
A year in jail is 365 days.

When you're sentenced to a year in jail you'll serve 365 days which is a year.

Although the year in jail will not be a good year and will seem to take longer than a normal year when you're at home and not in jail.

Jail is very boring and there's nothing to really do in there and so the time will slow down to a crawl and you're around a lot of bad people in the jail.

There's no parole once you get a jail sentence and are just serving a year in jail.

So you'll serve the entire year in jail and may also serve an additional day.

In the US federal system there is no parole so you could serve a year and a day.

You can earn up to 15% off of your sentence for good time.

This is not automatic and has to be earned.

However in some places you might only serve 50 percent of the year in jail sentence.

For example.

Under California law for most crimes, if you are sentenced to one year in county jail you will actually serve 50% of that sentence or six months.

However, there are certain more serious crimes, where you could serve as much as 80% or 85% of the one year sentence.

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