As i am writing this I am servicing jail time for the “crimes” i committed by “stealing” my armor back after the monastery quest. Bear in mind that I also had to murder several guards since there was no alternative to doing so if i wanted to progress the main quest.
I am serving ten days in jail for like 15 homicides. Ill let how ridiculous that is slide at this juncture to go on to the main problem. It literally took 15 minutes real time to let the little time spinner go until i could play again… This is probably the most ridiculous thing I have seen so far in the game (only thing worse I can think of is being unable to pass through a doorway in the Samopesh tavern resulting in me trespassing, being attacked and killed and losing a good hour of progress).
If all that is happening is the little time spinner going, please speed it up. There is absolutely no point in making players wait so long just to get back to your game.
Jail is both punishment and deterrent. You’re not supposed to enjoy it, and you’re supposed to hate it so much you’ll think twice before risking it again. And every jailbird thinks he’s being unfairly punished. You’ve hit all 3 marks here so this sounds like this is working as intended 
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The reason it is slow is the same reason sleeping and waiting are slow, because the entire 16km world (single cell mind you) and all the NPC’s and their daily routines are being simulated and processed.
If the there is any way to optimize and speed this up we will see it in a future patch.
During the Beta waiting or sleeping often broke the whole game.
In the words of the great Ice Cube…
“Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”
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I have the feeling its faster for some people and takes very long for others.
(seen posts about it and streams)
I suspect that the CPU is the issue here, same with fast traveling and sleeping because like @McWonderBeast said, NPC behavior has to be calculated.
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nope…it’s incentive to not steal/commit crimes or to get better at it…it was probably already sped up anyway, wait/sleep times were
Yeah, you should be punished. I got too, but mine was not fair 
So, I had this fist fight quest in Rattay and accidentally carried a body for a sec because i wanted to kick him and he was already unconscious…
I went back to Theresa do a quest(tavern one), then couple quest, then came back to Rattay and saw tha jail mark… and guards were like: hey, someone saw you carrying a body …
So, I went to jail for 7 days - it was no fun! Loooong time waiting.
We laughed hard with boyfriend, brewed and finished our coffees and I then I continued my game
On PC I recognized, that when you leave the game while waiting times (writing a forum post for example), the slider moves with at least have the speed it would move when KCD is your active task.
Otherwise I can’t explain 15 Minutes of waiting time. It is slow, that’s true, but it shouldn’t be that slow normally. At least that is not how I experienced it when KCD is the active task.
1 got 10 days for killing one person during that quest. I guess they ran his sentence concurrent.
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I got 9 days for punching a monk to get tossed out of the monastery lol. 1 punch
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lol this is officallly the KCD prison chat
Look, im just coming from the point of view that:
I’m a medical student, I use games as a break from study. So when KCD is saying wait in front of a black screen with a spinning dial for 15 of my 30 minute break…kinda a deal breaker. If it’s intended as a deterrent, the only thing it’s deterring is me playing the game again…
easy ways out of this: 1)buy a perma bed in Sassau and put all your stuff in that chest. It won’t count as stolen.
2) turn him in to radzig. your stuff wont be listed as stolen.
3) Climb up the scaffolding , get over to the monastery roof and snipe him with a bow in the garden then run like hell. ( least best option)
If you’ve only got a 30 minute slot to play in, try a different game.
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I sniped all the white robed monks from the roof. The guards never saw me.
Also, the wait/jail/fast travel timers ARE inconsistent. I can see a big difference on my PC depending on what is running in the background. Try it yourself if you don’t believe me!