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I would rather be homeless. I was a professional tramp for several years. I would much rather be more comfortable, but jail is a noisy ridiculous place where crime is glorified, and criminal skills are honed and improved. When incarceration became a commercial industry, rehabilitation took a back seat to what amounts to a 'higher education' in crime. Jails are now nothing but replacements for mental institutions and colleges for criminals, and the people who have people putting money on their books all the time form a kind of jail house mafia, and lord it over those who don't have money being put on their books.