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That's for federal-level offenses! Most states or counties have consecutive sentencing laws where charges are stacked in consecutive layers! 5 counts of 2 to 4 years each served consecutively add up to a 10 to 20 year sentence! If certain conditions are met, such as a specific type of weapon such as a knife, scissors or sharp object were used or present, then sentences are automatically tripled so that 10 to 20 years ends up being 30 to 60 years!

And in the USA, State Penns are far worse places to to serve your sentence than the federal prison system since they tend to have much harsher environments such as 2 inch thick mattresses, two-to-four inmates per cell, only two meals a day at $2.76 US per day assigned for cost of food, so the meals are agonizingly horrible all the time. Your medical treatment for a shank wound (stabbing which is the most common injury in US prisons) consists of two Tylenol every 6 hours (Paracetimol) for a week. Hopefully you don't bleed to death internally in the meantime since you don't get sent to the hospital but rather the prison clinic which does not usually have an X-Ray machine!

You also get locked in your 6x10 ft 20 hours per day with your 1-to-3 bunkmates with a half hour for breakfast/lunch and then dinner and two or three hours of recreation, low level education or showering (you get 1 fifteen minute shower per every 4 days so it always stinks in prison of raw body odor!) Many state-level prisons and county jails have also removed their televisions and coffee/tea. You want a drink? You get a cup of water or Tang twice a day! You want recreation, you think or talk to yourself or try to converse semi-literately with your cell mates. You want air conditioning and heating? NO! To save money, many states and counties have a policy of turning off their air conditioning or heating during many months so you're either freezing or boiling during your stay. And every day, once or twice a day, in many state prisons, you are stood up against a wall and all cavity searched. I think many of you know what that means!

No these are not exaggerations! The American prison system really is that brutal! And if you are a small male or female less than 160 lbs, you will be in a world of hurt as the larger and stronger prisoners, during their general prison congregation hours, tend to brutalize the smaller and weaker prisoners for fun which is why you need to join a gang once you're in.

America is way more brutal than Europe! Even short sentences can get you ending up in a literal hell-hole which will scar you mentally and many times physically for life!