JAILS AND PRISONS

Jails and Prisons

Jails and Prisons

Jails are locally staffed and funded via say and regional government. They are short-term confinement facilities that were originally built to keep suspects afterwards apprehend and while they were awaiting trial. Today jails serve other functions such as to temporarily detain juveniles, mentally ill individuals and others pending transfer to appropriate facilities. They are also accustomed to keep individuals for the military, for protective custody, contempt and to keep witnesses for the courts. One of the main functions of jails is to keep inmates that are sentenced to brief terms, usually less than one year, ...