[Ms Grumpy]

She got out of jail at 12:40am this morning. At 8:30 this morning she was at my house waiting for the company to come out and disable her car. We had a few minutes to talk and she told me that most of the woman that were in the jail with her were people who violated their probabation because they could not afford to pay for all the things that the probation entails. Councelors approved by the court ($45-$75 a visit not covered by insurance, she has to go once a week for the next 3 months), drug testing ($20-$40 a pop, sometimes 4 times a week), disabling your car for 3 months ($90 service call +$37.50 a month for 3 months then another $90 for them to come out and take the club off of her stearing wheel), court costs, jail fees and more. Then she has a car payment and insurance, even though she cannot drive it and what about living expenses and the expense of having a child.

I think that the court system is set up for people to fail. And then we, the general public, pay for incarcerating the people who cannot afford to pay the fees. So they throw them in jail, which is over crowded and we pay for it. Who wins here ???

I can hope that she has changed. But from this morning I still saw the same girl, maybe a little more stressed about what she has to do. I told her straight, she is lucky that she has a guy who has stood by her thru all of this, who took care of many things while she was in jail. I said that she needs to trust and listen to what this man says because he only has her best interest at heart, and if she doesn't, she might lose him. Seriously, how many of you would have stood by this girl ?