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DUI Arrest: Home Confinement or House Arrest You Can Afford

If you get convicted of a DUI in Orange County, you may be required to serve some jail time, especially if it is a second offense DUI or if it was a DUI with injury. If the District Attorney offers you a set amount of jail time in order to resolve your case, your DUI Attorney in Orange County   may be able to negotiate a settlement where the jail time can be served as home confinement. (also called house arrest or supervised electronic confinement) If your Orange County DUI Lawyer does get home confinement for you, you will be required to wear a GPS bracelet and can only leave your house for work, school, the alcohol program, and other necessities of life. Home confinement through the probation department costs you money. Typically, you will be required to pay $375.00 for installation of the bracelet and between $12 and $20 per day, depending on your income. As the usual jail sentence for a second-offense DUI is about 60 days in the Orange County courts, this means that home confinement will cost you around $1,500.

About two weeks ago, however, the Orange County jail began a new home confinement program of its own. This program, called the Electronic Monitoring Program, provides home confinement to those who are approved by the court at NO COST. Thus, if you are sentenced to jail time for a DUI but your Orange County DUI Attorney   gets court approval to serve the jail time on home confinement, you have the option of doing it through the probation department at your own expense, or through O.C. jail at no cost. DUI Attorneys in Orange County know the only downside to the O.C.J. program is that you typically must spend the first night in jail at the Theo Lacy facility while they process you into their electronic monitoring program.

If your DUI Lawyer in Orange County cannot get court approval for home confinement, you still may be eligible for another alternative to jail. For example, because the O.C. jail is so crowded, it is typical for those reporting to jail on a DUI charge to be given Community Work Program. Under this program, you would report every morning for a day of physical labor, such as picking up trash at an Orange County park. Afterwards, you would go home. One 10-hour day of work is equal to one day of custody.

If you face conviction for DUI in Orange County and would like to consult with an experienced DUI Lawyer in Orange County about sentencing options, call the Law Offices of EJ Stopyro at (949) 559-5500 to today. The consultation is free and confidential. Or visit our website at www.EJEsquire.com.
Law Offices of EJ Stopyro
Orange County DUI Attorneys