1. After the war, the jail mostly held petty criminals. 2. But bonds also are a practical necessity because jails could not hold everyone charged with a crime. 3. County jails hold people who are accused of crimes until they make bail or until their cases are adjudicated. 4. He rejects repeated reports by human rights groups that clandestine jails still hold political prisoners in Guatemala. 5. The jail holds convicts who have been sentenced to terms of a year or less and defendants awaiting trial. 6. Yet Cuban jails have proportionally held far more political prisoners than those in Chile did under Pinochet. 7. Contrasted with prisons, local jails generally hold defendants awaiting trial, as well as convicts serving sentences of a year or less. 8. Kabul jail holds foreign fighters. 9. Syrian jails hold hundreds of political prisoners, Amnesty has said. 10. Some jails hold six times their inmate capacity. |