It depends on the state. In Arkansas, for example, you generally serve 2 months for each year you’re sentenced. 36 month sentence = 6 months incarceration, and then 30 months of parole.
Despite people saying certain areas are “soft on crime,” almost all of our county jails and state prisons are at capacity or overflowing, so they basically have to triage who stays and who goes based on severity of charges, flight risk, violence, etc.
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