[lbo-talk] it's inevitable

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu May 4 06:29:40 PDT 2006


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Jerry Monaco wrote:
>
> >So does this include city jails, county jails or only state jails?
>
> State prisons. Cities & counties have jails, states and the feds have
> prisons. Jails are where people are held awaiting trial or on
> short-term offenses; prisons are where you do real time (though
> thanks to overcrowding, some prison inmates are farmed out to jails).

City and county jails are often -- very often -- places of horror, and the phrase "where people are held awaiting trial" sounds more innocent than it is. An accurate count of men & women in prison should very definitely count those in county & city jails.

Carrol



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