For singer-songwriter and Euphoria actor Dominic Fike, jail is arguably worse than prison, even if the latter means longer inside (“jail” in the US is for those on remand or serving short sentences). “It’s more of a purgatory, it’s the holding [pen] between freedom and prison,” says Fike. “It sucks, dude.”
Fike was already under house arrest for assaulting a police officer in 2016 when he failed a drug test, breaking the terms of his probation and receiving a year’s jail sentence as a result. He could be forgiven for spending that time wallowing in his own misfortune – or stupidity – except Fike had something else going on.
