I must say the Philly court system is whacked out. First my son turned himself in on a 2006 warrant. At first he had some trouble getting the police to hold him. So they finally cuff him and put him in a holding cell for the night. They take him to bench warrant court 12:30 pm the following day, the bench warrant is dropped but they take him up to Curran Fromhold Prison on the Failure to appear charge, he is a holding cell with 30 some other dudes getting processed. I get a call a few hours later from him in the Social services office at 5:15 telling me he was going to be discharged later in the evening. First they tell me to call back at 8 pm, they told me he was going to be discharged 4-6 hours from that time, that he wasn't processed yet. So from then on it was guess work, will he arrive in Center City 1:am, 2 am or later and how and when do I get there and where the hell is going to be if he doesn't have a dime or a cell phone and gets no more phone calls. So when I was on the phone at 5:15 pm I quickly said., meet me at the Greyhound terminal and stay there until you see me.....then I wondered if he heard that or even knew how to get there.
So he arrives at 12:45 am .He was escorted all the way up to the prison from court, was in a holding cell for 6 hours, saw 3 fights between cops and dudes, had 2 baloney sandwiches for lunch and the same for dinner and then he is released. Why in the hell did they go through all of that just to release him ? Makes zero sense to me.
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