[lbo-talk] it's inevitable

Jerry Monaco monacojerry at gmail.com
Thu May 4 08:01:13 PDT 2006


Yes, Doug I know... wrote jails by mistake... People in county and city jails are either awaiting trials or in for a short period, usually less than one year..... Was just curious about the statistics/ JM

On 5/4/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> Jerry Monaco wrote:
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> >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).
>
> Doug
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