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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.

  3. House arrest - Wikipedia

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    At sentencing, the judge may sentence an offender to home detention where they would otherwise receive a short-term prison sentence (i.e. two years or less). Home detention sentences range from 14 days and 12 months; offenders are confined to their approved residence 24 hours a day and may only leave with the permission of their probation officer.

  4. Detention (imprisonment) - Wikipedia

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    The detention decision directly made by the people's court is a judicial compulsory measure, based on the Civil Procedure Law or the Administrative Procedure Law. The maximum period is 20 days, and the court will deliver the detainee to the administrative detention facility of the public security department for execute.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Periodic detention - Wikipedia

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    Periodic detention or weekend detention is a type of custodial sentence under which the offender is held in prison between Friday and Sunday evenings each week, ...

  8. Administrative detention - Wikipedia

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    Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial.A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security reasons. Many countries [1] claim to use administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism or rebellion, to control illegal immigration, or to otherwise protect the ruling regime.

  9. Lanterman–Petris–Short Act - Wikipedia

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    A 5350 hold, otherwise known as a temporary LPS conservatorship (under W&I Code § 5352.1), is initiated at the end of a 14-day hold. Such is initiated by the individual's treating psychiatrist and co-signed by the medical director of the psychiatric facility to the Public Guardian Office in the individual's county of residence.