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Marin County, San Francisco North Bay, Ca. USA

county governments, and house prisoners who are being detained before trial or serving sentences less than one year. Approximately half of the U.S. jail population consists of pretrial detainees who have not been convicted or sentenced. Prisoners serving terms longer than one year are typically housed in correctional facilities operated by state governments. Unlike most state prisons, a jail usually houses both men and women who in separate portions of the same facility. Some jails lease space to house inmates from the federal government, state prisons or from other counties for profit.

As of 2005, local jails held or supervised 819,434 offenders. Nine percent of these offenders were in programs such as community service, work release, weekend reporting, electronic monitoring, and other alternative programs.

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