Alternatives to Jail for your Orange County DUI Arrest
Work Furlough / Pay-To-Stay-Jail Alternative
Work Furlough programs are court ordered work programs where a person is required to complete unpaid work for the county for a certain period of time.
Work Furlough programs consist of physical labor such as cleaning up city parks, city streets, trash collections, and other tasks involving physical labor.
Work Furlough programs as applied to Orange County DUI sentencing alternatives within Orange County are more akin to Pay-To-Stay Jail programs than they are to traditional community service programs.
For your Orange County DUI, work release allows you to serve your jail sentence in a private city jail, removed from other violent offenders that a person may encounter in a county jail.
If approved, essentially a Orange County DUI offender is allowed to leave the city jail to go to work at his or her existing job while serving their jail sentence at night in the private city jail.
This keeps a Orange County DUI employed at his or her job while servicing their sentence in jail.
Eligibility Requirements for Work Release & Furlough Programs
NO PRIOR CONVICTIONS OF VIOLENT CRIMES
Generally speaking, a Orange County DUI offender cannot have any violent conviction on their criminal record, no matter how long ago the conviction occurred.
As previously stated, once admitted to the city jail, a Orange County DUI offender is housed with other non-violent offenders. Such offenders include individuals arrested for drugs, drinking, and DUI.
Individuals arrested for or convicted of such crimes as Domestic Violence, Battery, Rape, Robbery, and other violent crimes are usually not eligible for Work Furlough programs.
If you have had a prior conviction of a violent offense, an appeal process may render you eligible for the Work Furlough program.
NO SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITIONS
Unlike County jail, the local Work Furlough programs are not set up with medical facilities to care for Orange County DUI offenders with medical conditions. Notifying the program of medical problems and/or the need to take medication while staying at the Work Furlough programs may render you ineligible for the program.
Availability of Work Release Programs
In Orange County work release is a very popular alternative to jail. Many of the city jail's beds are taken and the application process can take several months depending on your sentence and the circumstances regarding any prior arrests you may have.
To learn more about your eligibility for such programs, contact an experienced Orange County DUI attorney at 877-717-2889.
