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In United States legal terminology dead time is time spent institutionalized by a defendant that does not count as credit toward the defendant's sentence.An example would be time spent confined in a mental hospital while the defendant is being restored to competency to stand trial, or halfway house time pending sentencing can also sometimes be dead time.
Prison slang has existed as long as there have been crime and prisons; in Charles Dickens' time it was known as "thieves' cant". Words from prison slang often eventually migrate into common usage, such as "snitch", "ducking", and "narc". Terms can also lose meaning or become obsolete such as "slammer" and "bull-derm." [2]
Greatest amount of jail time given as a result of an appeal. Found guilty of crimes ranging from rape of an elderly woman in Tulsa County, Oklahoma to larceny, robbery and kidnapping, and sentenced to 2,250 years. He appealed, was reconvicted, re-sentenced and received an additional jail term of 9,500 years, later reduced by 500 years. [15] [13]
The old county jail will be renovated into 9 condo units which may be available as early as the summer of 2024.
Sean "Diddy" Combs is currently in jail after being arrested on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.. The rapper was taken into custody on Sept ...
Campbell County has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman who spent the last 16 hours of her life strapped to a chair at the county jail.. Officials agreed to settle the wrongful ...
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 ...
A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the state, usually as punishment for various crimes.