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Carcanum

Carcanum, a prison, Leg. Canut. Reg.

Roundhouse

A constables prison a lockup watch house or station house

bail

bail [Anglo-French, act of handing over, delivery of a prisoner into someone's custody in exchange for security, from bailler to hand over, entrust, from Old French, from Latin

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Arraign

aresner, aregnir, arraigner, Old Fr., i.e., ad rationem ponere, Lat., to call one to account], to bring a prisoner to the bar of the Court to answer the matter charged upon him in the indictment. The arraignment

detainer

3 : a notification sent by a prosecutor, judge, or other official advising a prison official that a prisoner is wanted to answer criminal charges and requesting continued detention of the prisoner or notification of the prisoner's

writ of habeas corpus

a restraint on a person's liberty, usually imprisonment. The writ commands the officials who have custody of a prisoner to bring the prisoner before the court, so that the court may determine whether the prisoner is being

Bail

a security such as cash or a bond, especially security required by court for the release of a prisoner who must appear at a further time, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 135. Bail, a temporary release

Character

Character. Witnesses to speak to the good character of a prisoner may be called by him in his defence, and, if they speak to nothing else, it is the

Civil prison

Civil prison, means any jail or place used for the detention of any criminal prisoner under the Prisons Act, 1894, or under any other law for the time being in force. [Border Security

Escape

Escapes are either voluntary, by the express consent of the keeper, after which he never can take his prisoner again (though the plaintiff may retake him at any time), but the sheriff had to answer for the

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