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Originally Posted by spike420211
>2.5 yrs. in the joint in Austria/Germany/Belgium is nothing compared to 2.5 years in the US. First of all, they're less sexually repressed, the chances of being buttraped are far diminished. Plus, they consider it rehab-
they actually teach youth authority offenders a trade.
LOL @ this (sadly).
Don't know if there's a special reason to mention Belgium, but this is most definitely not true (at least not in practice).
The Belgian criminal justice system in general and the prison facilities in particular are a disaster. You
don't want to spend a month in there, let alone 2.5 years. It's not quite "Prison Break", but it's no hotel either (although a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about seem to think it is).
Then again, it's quite impossible to be sent to jail for a traffic offence.
There were a few prison sentences lately, but they were always for killing someone (or multiple people) while driving drunk. And all those sentences were for less than 3 years, which means in practice you don't go to prison.
There was one exception, which was a case where a young guy without a licence caused an accident with a borrowed car while drunk and high on cocaine and killed a mother and 3 kids.
He got five years. The fact that he was Romanian may or may not have had something to do with it (again, sad but true).
Anyway, I'm not being helpful to the OP I'm afraid.