DUI Penalty- How To Avoid Jail Time In Maryland
Reader’s Question:
I heard that here in Maryland, you can avoid going to county jail if you are convicted for DUI by having some sort of other punishments like highway cleanup. How true is this and would there be any other alternative for jail?
Lina
Towson, MD
If someone is sentenced to jail for the crime of DUI in Towson, Maryland, or anywhere in Maryland for that matter, there are other alternatives to going to county jail. This is called alternative sentencing and examples of this are highway cleanup, community service, electronic monitoring, drug rehabilitation/sober living environments and work release.
The highway cleanup is more physically demanding work, such as picking up trash by the side of the freeway. This may seem a tough work but at least you can go home afterwards, take a shower, eat a good meal and sleep in your own bed with not unwanted roommates. Community service is working in a court-approved program and electronic monitoring means wearing an ankle bracelet which detects alcohol consumption by monitoring excretions from the skin. Drug rehabilitation/sober living environments is a program for those who are struggling with drug or alcohol addiction. The work release is a dorm-like setting wherein the participants go to work during the day and return at night by a specified time. In general, weekends are spent in the work release environment as well since the only allowable release is for work.
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