The county contracted a private disciplinarian to handle minor offenses. These two were caught shoplifting.
Prisoners convicted of drug offenses are searched thoroughly at intake to make sure nothing gets into the prison. I kind of feel sorry for this one; the officer has been at it for an hour, and she's only in here because a weed pen was found in her car.
What you see here is a fraudster getting their comeuppance. The judge surprised me by letting one of the victims deliver the punishment. To be honest, for an amateur, she's doing a great job.
The options were jail or a diversion program in a monastery. She chose the monastery, thinking it would be "peaches and cream." She couldn't have been more wrong.
When an inmate leaves prison, they go to a halfway house. Those halfway houses have rules, and when those rules are broken, well...