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?
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> 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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