Sunday, March 8, 2009

Charles Barkley..NBA star, celebrated analyst, INMATE

Charles Barkley has been in the slammer all weekend. An Arizona judge sentenced Sir Charles to a 36 hour sentence for a drunken driving violation that occurred New Years Eve.

Barkley also took a leave of absence from his analyst job at TNT following the arrest. 

A few interesting things about this situation:

- inmates at the jail where Barkley is serving his sentence are housed in tents, not traditional cells. 

- Barkley's sentence breaks down like this: 24 hours on Saturday, work release from 8a-8p on Sunday, and then back in the slammer from 8p-8a Sunday Night. Work release at 8a Monday, and then he's done.

Now, I don't know much about the penal code and I do my best to avoid Johnny Law, but sleeping in outdoor tents, not jail cells, and getting released for 12 hours for "work release" sounds like a sweet deal to me. I wonder, is this the situation for everyone who gets a DUI in that county or is Chuck Barkley receiving a little preferential treatment?

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