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  2. Intermittent Confinement - Wikipedia

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    In the United States and Canada, intermittent confinement or weekend jail is an alternative sentence in which a defendant is required to report to a correctional facility for multiple short periods of incarceration, usually during the weekend. This type of sentence allows a defendant to maintain employment and family relationships while ...

  3. Pre-trial detention - Wikipedia

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    Pre-trial detention, also known as jail, preventive detention, provisional detention, or remand, is the process of detaining a person until their trial after they have been arrested and charged with an offence. A person who is on remand is held in a prison or detention centre or held under house arrest.

  4. Solitary confinement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Original bed inside solitary confinement cell in Franklin County Jail, Pennsylvania. In the United States penal system, upwards of 20 percent of state and federal prison inmates and 18 percent of local jail inmates are kept in solitary confinement or another form of restrictive housing at some point during their imprisonment. [1]

  5. 'Do not pass Go, go directly to jail' has real meaning for ...

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    Reppke was not allowed to collect his $200 when passing Go because he was taken to jail. Real jail. One neighbor later quipped, "I guess he takes his Monopoly pretty seriously."

  6. Prison slang - Wikipedia

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    A person who was homeless or living on the streets before they arrived to prison Chibhengebhenge Translates to "useless person," means "noise" (an idiophone of a person's unproductive speech) Dambarefu Translates to "long play," means "a life sentence or a sentence that is ten years or longer" (in reference to the Long Play Record) Dzokufa

  7. Special administrative measure - Wikipedia

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    A special administrative measure (SAM) is a process under United States law (28 CFR 501.3; see also USAM title 9 chapter 24 — Requests for Special Confinement Conditions) whereby the United States Attorney General may direct the United States Bureau of Prisons to use "special administrative measures" regarding housing of and correspondence and visitors to specific inmates.

  8. These 18 Famous People Are Currently In Prison For Their ...

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    Image credits: The Hollywood Reporter #12 R. Kelly. Former singer and record producer R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison in early 2023 for three charges of producing child sexual abuse ...

  9. United States federal probation and supervised release

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    The life cycle of federal supervision for a defendant. United States federal probation and supervised release are imposed at sentencing. The difference between probation and supervised release is that the former is imposed as a substitute for imprisonment, [1] or in addition to home detention, [2] while the latter is imposed in addition to imprisonment.