You know how they say a crime in punishable by "up to x years in prison or y dollars fine? Well I thought when a person was convicted they got to pick which one for their punishment
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I used to believe when a person was convicted of a crime and sent to prison, his lawyer went to prison, too.— Tara
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- my uncle got sent to prison on the Isle of Wight. I thought that he had been sent into exile.— nns
- I thought the women in Prisoner Cell Block H were actresses banged up in prison themselves.— Reb Kean
- I used to think True Crime was a documentary TV show and not a genreAnon
- I used to think a con artist was someone who painted pictures in prison.— Brandon Campbell