Former television personality Judge Joe Brown spent much of his time in the court room as a judge and a lawyer. However, after Brown's Monday arrest for contempt of court, he said he has seen the legal system in a whole new light.

In an interview with ABC News, Brown said he was obliged to take on a woman's child support case after she approached him.

Brown said he felt the case never should have gone forward.

"When I insisted that the woman's charges be dismissed," Brown said to ABC News. "[The judge] started talking about, I'm not an attorney so-and-so. ... I said, 'You know it's wrong. ... You're better than this.'

Brown was sentenced to five days in jail, something he believes should never have happened. Brown claims the judge was only a lawyer and did not have the authority to do so.

Brown says he found his experience in jail to be a positive one.

"I shook hands and took pictures with all of the staff down there, and shook hands with inmates," Brown said, in an interview with ABC News.

Brown also said that he was not forced to stay in a cell.

He said, "[The guards] had me in jail detention assignment down on the first floor. They were getting ready to take me upstairs [to a cell] and I said, 'Oh no you're not! Because you put your sheriff in complicity for what I might do to sue you and it's getting doubled if I go up there."

Although Brown said that he has been accused of a publicity stunt in his experience, he denies the claims.

"Considering my ratings and the fact that I've been coming into the homes of just about everybody with a TV set in Shelby County for about 15 years, what was there to promote?" he said, in an interview with ABC News. "Everybody knows who I am."

Brown's hearing in criminal court on the case is set for April 4.