http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/us/29jail.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=253 44300f0ef0a4d&ex=1335499200&partner=r
For $82 a Day, Booking a Cell in a 5-Star Jail
"For offenders whose crimes are usually relatively minor (carjackers
[WS:] I think that even more outrageous is the fact that people get jail time for such minor offences. What happened to the good old community service - working at a homeless shelter, picking up trash from highways etc.?
Wojtek