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  2. California criminal law - Wikipedia

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    California criminal law generally follows the law of the United States. However, there are both substantive and procedural differences between how the United States federal government and California prosecute alleged violations of criminal law.

  3. California Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    The Penal Code enacted by the California State Legislature in February 1872 was derived from a penal code proposed by the New York code commission in 1865 which is frequently called the Field Penal Code after the most prominent of the code commissioners, David Dudley Field II (who did draft the commission's other proposed codes). [1]

  4. Demurrage - Wikipedia

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    The time sheet enables laytime and therefore demurrage or despatch to be calculated. [5] The demurrage fee is often a daily amount agreed between charterers and ship owners. Ideally, the demurrage fee (per day in US dollars) covers the daily time charter rate, daily voyage costs, and the ship owner’s risk premium. [6]

  5. Detention (confinement) - Wikipedia

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    Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen holds a person by removing or restricting their freedom or liberty at that time. Detention can be due to (pending) criminal charges against the individual pursuant to a prosecution or to protect a person or property.

  6. California bans private prisons and immigration detention centers

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    California moved to end the use of private, for-profit lockups in America's largest state prison system as well as in federal immigration detention centers in the state under a measure signed into ...

  7. Criminal procedure in California - Wikipedia

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    Read what charges the District attorney has filed in court against the defendant (e.g. "You have been charged with violation of Section 243 of the Penal Code, Battery.") [13] If the DA decides not to file charges against the defendant, then the defendant is set free. The judge may ask the defendant if they waive their right to hear the charges.

  8. California's Adelanto ICE detention facility contract ... - AOL

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    California's Adelanto ICE detention facility contract extended until June after staff pushback. Andrea Castillo. January 17, 2024 at 8:01 AM.

  9. Improving, but still grim, conditions in immigration ... - AOL

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    Improving, but still grim, conditions in immigration detention centers, California AG says. Owen Tucker-Smith. July 15, 2022 at 7:38 AM.