When an individual commits a criminal offense and is arrested, ‘get married or get jailed’ is probably the least verdict one could expect from the court. Usually, the normal process that follows anyone’s arrest is for them to be placed in a cell, charged to court, and or possible bail.
If found guilty, a sentence follows varying from as long as 162 life sentences (to one person!) to as bizarre as eating only bread and water for two days. The prison sentences tagged strange or bizarre in this article are a few of the weird convictions issued by some judges in the past.
10 Strange Prison Sentences Handed to Offenders
1. Betina Young Gets Five Christmases In Jail
Once upon a time, an Ohio judge sentenced a woman convicted called Betina Young to 5 Christmas days in prison for illegally selling driver’s licenses. Judge Michael J. Holbrook refers to the prison sentence as the “Holbrook Holiday”
Hollbrook had told ABC News that he sometimes takes important dates of culprits like their birthdays or other forms of festive days and makes them give it up. For instance, if a person usually celebrates Christmas, he will he would make him go to jail for 3 to 5 days during the Christmas holiday so as to miss Christmas Eve and even Christmas days with their families.
2. Drunk Driving Incident Ends In 10 Years Sentence To Church
After he pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter at age 17, Tyler Alred received a strange prison sentence. The teenager was mandated by Judge Mike Norman to attend church weekly for 10 years.
He was also manded to wear an ankle monitor and graduate from school. Failure to meet these conditions would land the kid a possible lifetime in prison for first-degree manslaughter as a result of driving under the influence of alcohol.
3. Teens Sentenced To Sorry-For-The-Jackass-Offense March
Judge Michael A. Cicconetti of Painesville Municipal Court sentenced two 19-year-old teens to march around the village with a donkey vividly bearing an apology that stated ‘Sorry for the jackass offense’. Brian Patrick and Jessica Lange had earlier stolen and defaced the baby Jesus statue used in the nativity scene of a church in Fairport Harbor. They also got 45 days imprisonment as well as completing drug and alcohol counseling and replacing the stolen statue.
4. 60 Days Jail Time Or Walk the Walk of Shame
When Jason Householder, 23, and John Stockum, 21, threw beer bottles at a woman in a car, they sure weren’t thinking of wearing dresses, shoes, and wigs and walking through downtown Coshocton. Judge David Hostetler did a fast one on them and gave them either that or 60 days of jail time. Your guess is as good as mine; they chose the dresses.
5. Too Short for Prison
Richard W. Thompson, 50, was found guilty of sexually molesting a 12-year-old girl, yet all he got was 10-year probation as Judge Kristine Cecava considered him too short for prison. What? I know right! Well, she was removed from the bench two years later.
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6. You Are Hereby Sentenced to No Girlfriend
After molesting his ex-girlfriend, Steven Cranley, 24, was restrained from entering a romantic relationship with a female for 3 years. He was made to undergo counseling during the period as he had been declared to have difficulties with coping with rejection by doctors. He, however, ended with a two-year jail time for assaulting a female acquaintance, halfway through the ‘sentence’.
7. And Judge Restiano Sent His Entire Courtroom to Jail
In 2005, New York Judge Robert Restiano got all of the 46 persons in his courtroom to jail. Apparently, a mobile phone rang and it triggered something in his ‘troubled’ mind. 32 of them were able to place bail and the rest shackled off to another facility. They were all previously convicted of domestic violence and were in the courtroom for counseling and weekly alcohol and substance abuse monitoring. The press, however, got a whiff of it and prompted the ‘prisoners’ release. Judge Restiano was later removed from the bench.
8. Josten Bundy Had To Marry His Girlfriend Or…
It was this that inspired this piece on strange prison sentences. As recent as 2015, Josten Bundy was sentenced to either marry his girlfriend or spend time frolicking in jail. This was punishment for assaulting his girlfriend, Elizabeth Jaynes’ ex-boyfriend. In addition, he was to seek counseling and keep a journal of biblical verses.
9. Landlady Florence Got to Feel What Her Tenants Felt
Florence Nyemitei, a lousy landlady, had a taste of her bitter pill when she was forced to spend four nights a week for 6o days in the freezing and electricity-lacking living condition she subjected her tenants to. She as well got a fine of $10,000. Although bizarre, White Plains City Court Judge JoAnn Friia did well on this one.
10. 3 Days On Bread And Water For Melissa Dawn
Melissa Dawn Sweeney, 28, got thrown into prison for 30 days with 3 days on only bread and water. This was for gross animal neglect which led to one of her horses being euthanized. Judge Mike Peters felt it was justice enough for the horse. Do you think so?
