Chapter 21.Jails and Prisons
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Local jails, usually administered by city or county officials, are facilities that hold inmates beyond arraignment, generally for 48 hours or more but less than a year. Prisons are state or federally operated correctional facilities in which persons convicted of major crimes or felonies serve sentences that are usually more than 1 year. Six states have combined jail and prisons systems. Despite the clear legal status differences between pretrial detainees in jails and inmates in prisons, the term inmate is used throughout this chapter to refer to both.
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