Is their a difference between jail and prison?

Question

their was a huge fight today in class...everyone was trying to say they are exactly the same....maybe im wrong i always thought jail was just a little county place where ppl stayed temporarily until they maybe went to the big federal prison

Answer 1

jail and prison are two very different things...

Jail, is a place you go while waiting for bail to be set, or to serve less than 2 years..

Prison is a place you go after jail, and trial, and conviction...

Answer 2

MOST States Jail Is The County Jail Where You Serve Until You Are Sentenced, If You Recieve A Sentence Of Under A Year It Would Be Served In County JAIL, You Could However Be There Up To 2 To 3 Years Awaiting Trial And Sentencing. State PRISON Is For Sentences Over A Year. Street Terminology Could Vary By Location.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

They are the same and different at the same time. They are the same in that they are designed to keep people in. The differences though are many. A jail has a high turn over of inmates because it is for minor offenses, misdemeanors, etc. Jails are not long term holding facilities that prisons are. A jail will house inmates that have short terms up to about a year or so. A prison is for felons with long sentences, more than a year. but in todays language jail and prison could be considered as the same thing.

Answer 5

Local jurisdictions have jails. The county jail or city jail, etc., and are designed and used for short-term incarceration, i.e. those awaiting trial, convicted of misdemeanor offenses, etc.

Prisons are for long-term incarceration and incarceration for more serious offenses, and house prisoners from a wider geographic area, i.e. state prisons, federal prisons, etc.

In California, for example, the definition of a felony is a crime punishable by state imprisonment, whereas a misdemeanor is defined as a crime punishable by less than one year in the county jail.

Answer 6

Generally people sentenced to county jail don't do more than a year. However this doesn't count time waiting during ones trial, as we all know jury trials can last a long time.

People sentenced to state prison have been assigned life terms even condemned to death. Generally people sentenced to county jail time are lesser offenders.

Answer 7

jail is when you are arrested at a local station they let you go within 24-48 hours. Prison is when have been convicted of a crime and are serving time in a state prison

Answer 8

HAVING BEEN A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER IN BOTH A JAIL AND A PRISON LET ME ANSWER THIS ONE FOR YOU:

JAIL.
1)A PLACE WHERE YOU ARE BOOKED ON THE ORIGINAL CHARGE.

2) YOU CAN HAVE A BOND POSTED AND GET OUT, HAVE A BAIL AMOUNT SET AND PAY CASH OR SECURITY AND GET OUT, OR YOU MAY HAVE A NO BAIL BOND AND HAVE TO STAY TILL ARRAIGNMENT.

3) USUALLY ARRAIGNED FOR PLEA, GUILTY / NOT GUILTY, SETTING OF BOND OR REDUCTION OF BOND,TRIAL DATE SET, APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL.

4) AWAIT TRIAL, TRIAL, SENTENCING, APPEAL OF SENTENCE(6 WEEKS)

5) AFTER APPEAL IS DONE, SERVE TIME.

JAIL--SENTENCING IS FOR UP TO A YEAR, UNLESS MULTIPLE CHARGES OF MISDEMEANORS. THEN CAN BE NO MORE THEN 2 YEARS MAXIMUM.

PRISON--ANY SENTENCE OF 1YEAR AND A DAY TO LIFE WITHOUT. PRISON IS A PERMANENT STAY OF TIME.

FEDERAL PRISON--TIME DONE FOR FEDERAL OFFENSES / RACKETEERING, BANK ROBBERY ETC,.

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Answer 9

None, boths mean incarceration. Jail is a terms used for short time, and prison for a long stretch.

Answer 10

To maximum folk the two words could be synomomous. yet i think penitentiary is a be conscious used to describe a short incarceration term and short-term whilst penitentiary denotes a place for placed up-sentencing incarceration, frequently to end the sentence.