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A county jail is a place of detention for people awaiting trial, or for those who have been convicted of a Misdemeanor and are serving a sentence of less than one year. County jails are, in a sense, small Prisons run by individual Counties . Some have different wings for certain types of offenders, and have work programs for inmates that demonstrate good behavior. County jails also do not carry out Execution s, although the Cook County Jail in Chicago did at one time have an Electric Chair {Link without Title} . Unlike most state prisons, a jail has wings to hold both men and women in the same facility. Some jails lease space to house inmates from the federal government, state prisons or from other counties for profit. In recent years, county jails all over the United States have faced overcrowding crises as the number of low-level offenders ballooned, particularly those accused of drug-and-poverty related crimes. Many jails are full to capacity, and the volume of offenders entering county jails increases every year. SEE ALSO |
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