weekend jail
Intermittent custody arrangement
Weekend jail is a sentencing arrangement where offenders serve their time only on weekends, typically checking in Friday evening and leaving Sunday night.
This allows people convicted of minor crimes to maintain employment and family responsibilities during the week while still serving their sentence: He got six months of weekend jail for the DUI.
- intermittentOccurring at irregular intervals
- work-releaseSupervised outside employment program
- work schedulePlanned job hours
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- serving timeCompleting a prison sentence
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- Criminal Penaltiesprison, incarceration, death penalty, life sentence, criminal fine
- clemencypardon, amnesty, clemency, reprieve, commutation
- prison sentenceslife sentence, prison term, sentence length, life without parole, mandatory minimum
- sentencinglife sentence, life sentences, prison sentence, death row, consecutive sentences
- Diversion Programstraffic diversion, drug court, mental health court, domestic violence court
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Highest-level detention facility
life imprisonment · hard time · solitary confinement · supermax · death row
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