many years ago an OG was being greeted in the barbershop and asked where he been at cause nikkas hadn’t seen him in a min
He was saying how he been locked up for a year cause he caught a lil drug case and the judge offered him a year on the island (rikers) or 4 years probation or some shyt like that. He said he didn’t even think twice and took the year. Mind you OG already did 30 years for a body.
And I remember thinking to myself “wtf why wouldn’t you take the probation your freedom is PRICELESS!”
Then two seconds later OG admitted nothing tops his ability to smoke his “crillz” (aka crack)
to some doing drugs and NOT engaging in criminal shyt is too much to give up so they rather do time.
Life is crazy
from that 4 years of probation coming with conditions that could potentially turn into who knows how much more years ...to the fact that probation is an expensive expense that if you can't keep up with he'll do more than that 1 year offered etc etc
theres all kinds of variables to where people turn down non detention deals