Jail in a Courthouse buiiding?
How come there's a jail in a downtown highrise builiding?
Just a curious west coaster.
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I wondered the same thing!
shareAll courthouses have some variety of holding area or "jail"...kind of surprised it is such a stumper. Courthouses preform trials, but they also hear appeals, and sentence already incarcerated inmates to additional time for crimes committed while serving sentences and a host of other duties that involve current prison inmates presence in the actual courtroom. Since most court dockets are full to capacity, there is a better than usual chance that on any given day you would have incarcerated individuals needed for court proceedings. What do you do with these individuals...hand cuff them to a bench in the hallway? No...especially in densely populated cities. This film takes place in Chicago...no? If so then that is even more understandable since Chicago is a hub for hearings pertaining to witnesses incarcerated in the federal prison system. Finally it is quite common for the courthouse to be situated right next door to the actual jailhouse ,but in high population cities, often the city will house all local law enforcement in a huge facility...sometimes encompassing whole city blocks. So yes very common in courthouses.
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The local courthouse where I live has a bunch of holding cells. When the Sheriff's Dept. transports them via bus from the Main Detention Center, they have to put the inmates somewhere. The safest place is behind a door with a long corridor away from noncriminals, the employees, the lawyers, the staff and, of course, the Judge. They come in through another part of the building nowhere near the main entrance.
Typically, people that were caught in the act of committing a crime usually stay incarcerated depending on what they're charged with until their first appearance (arraignment). Sometimes the Judge at the courtroom located in the county jail will transfer a case downtown because they cannot make a ruling. This is why cells were built.
I remember my father's friend giving us a tour since he was a bailiff. I thought it was interesting to learn how inmates were processed and where they stood while court was in session. I was also told that they were to keep ankle cuffs on them at all times due to the fact that they can bolt out the door from where the jury usually sits.
I wouldn't be surprised if most courthouses contained a place to put incarcerated criminals. It's a risk having inmates exposed to the general public.
Yes I know that. But this looked like a regular prison. Not like a holding cell. So that was probably a plothole
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