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| - Vegas has better lodging than the county jail, but if the Las Vegas Metro Police have decided you won't be able to book another room, you'll probably end up spending at least 1-3 nights here before you get to see a judge and ask to be released.
While you're here, the food will be awful, the bedding will be hard, the cells will likely be crowded, and the smell will be pretty bad. But a piece of advice: keep your mouth shut and bear it the best you can. Complaints will pretty much result in things getting worse. You lost most of your rights the minute you entered the jail -- that's just the way it is, so there's not much point arguing about it. Argument will likely get you a restraint chair or a solitary cell.
And don't bother arguing about how you are "innocent until proven guilty". While that is theoretically true in America, in a jail, you are controlled (like cattle) until you are proven innocent-enough to be released.
That said, compared to east coast city jails, this place is pretty clean. You probably won't walk out of here with a disease that no one in the western world has heard of in the last 100 years (Philly and NYC jails can't say that). So be thankful for the smallest of favors while you are sitting here miserable.
Bottom line: this place sucks and it's supposed to. The county wants to encourage you to never come back.
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