Im on probation 5yrs and 1yr home confinement. I was recently put on the monitor I work afternoon shift so I always call my po to let him know what time I will be getting home well my children were sick so I stayed at my mother in laws house to watch them and now I'm being violated for it how much jail time I am possibly facing?

Hello b:

I'm assuming that you're still on home confinement... It's a serious violation.. Not knowing anything about you other than this, I'd guess they'll put you in jail for at least 30 days.

excon

You know of course you should have told the PO prior to you being out of your home. Your home is actually your "jail cell" whether you realize it or not and treated as such when you are on home arrest. Most people feel that an emergency (or what they perceive as an emergency) takes presedence over home arrest. It does NOT. The only time you would not be violated would be if you were taken to the hospital in an ambulance and could not call the PO prior to leaving your home.

You need to get out your original sentencing paperwork and read very carefully the part where the Judge put you on probation and what his punishment for you will be if you violate. You could end up going to jail for much longer than 30 days. You'll find out at your probation violation hearing. Best to start making plans now for your children's well being while you are away.

Hello again:

I knew this guy who was on work release. He had a job as a waiter. During lunch, he broke his partial plate, and had no front teeth. He DID have another partial at home, but he wasn't allowed to go home. Well, he really wasn't going home for a BAD reason. After all, he couldn't work without teeth.

Did he get away with it? He certainly did NOT. I'm not going to tell you his name, cause I don't want to embarrass him. But, his name begins with the letter e.

excon

Hello again:

I knew this guy who was on work release. He had a job as a waiter. During lunch, he broke his partial plate, and had no front teeth. He DID have another partial at home, but he wasn't allowed to go home. Well, he really wasn't going home for a BAD reason. After all, he couldn't work without teeth.

Did he get away with it? He certainly did NOT. I'm not gonna tell you his name, cause I don't wanna embarrass him. But, his name begins with the letter e.

excon

That cute monitor box records EVERY time you leave the premises and every time you return to the premises AND it electronically sends via the phone line this telltale info to the home arrest folks who happily will alert your PO to the fact you did or did not come home.

I had a friend who was allowed to go food shopping only certain hours once a week and could not leave her home any other time for food shopping. Had to even produce the grocery store receipts to PROVE that's where they went when they were out of the house. Yep. Forget that quick trip to the 7-11 for cigarettes or milk.

Most people do not take home arrest seriously and do not realize that they MUST tell the PO and/or get prior permission to leave their home or not. Say you were supposed to go food shopping and didn't then guess what you could not go food shopping unless you called your PO up and got permission to leave your home and go food shopping and have a dandy excuse why you didn't go on your scheduled day.

On home arrest you are essentially living in your own home but you are still essentially in a jail cell. If you did spend ANY time in jail you will remember that you were not free to just come and go as you wanted to as you were locked down at night and let out in the morning at a certain time to eat breakfast. Just being allowed out to go to work is like being let out of your cell at jail to do say kitchen duty or laundry duty and then you were immediately escoted back to your cell.

My friend could not even go and get her mail as the post box was not at her home but 2 doors down at the community box section. She could not even get her mail but had to ask someone else to get it for her. But she considered that as just an inconvenience instead of being in jail where she could not even sleep in her own bed or watch TV when she felt like it.