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Custody level (jail)






Custody level (jail)

In the US penitentiary jargon, an assigned category achieved by objective scoring that identifies an inmate?s required housing and supervision needs, and which determines to a large extent where and how the inmate is housed.

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Custodia legis
Custody of the law. Expenses in custodia legis are incurred, in the common interest of the creditors, to preserve the ship during the period of its arrest or attachment. Such expenses, together with costs of arrest and sale of the ship, are ordinarily ranked immediately after "special legislative rights" (infra) and ahead of all other maritime claims.

Custodial parent
The parent a child normally lives with, and the one who makes legal decisions concerning the child. there are several different types of custody arrangements. (see child custody section in your state).

Custody
The detainer of a person by virtue of a lawful authority.

Custom
French custume; Latin costuma; con, together, very; suere, to make one's own - have it one's own way. That length of usage which has become law; a usage which has acquired the force of law.

Custom of merchants
Lex mercatoria. A system of customs acknowledged and taken notice of by all nations, and are, therefore, a part of the general law of the land.

Custom-house
A place appointed by law, in ports of entry, where importers of goods, wares and merchandise are bound to enter the same, in order to pay or secure the duties or customs due to the government.

Customary rights
Rights which are acquired by custom.

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This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported.

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(United Kingdom) A guardian of morals.

Custos rotulorum
English law. The principal justice of the peace of a county, who is the keeper of the records of the county.



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Custody level (jail)

Commissary (prison)
In the US penitentiary jargon, the jail store for inmates, which provides food and hygiene items, correspondence material, tennis shoes, reading glasses, phone cards and over-the-counter medication.ÿ

Contraband (jail)
In the US penitentiary jargon, it includes illegal items, explosives, deadly weapons, drugs, controlled substances, and any item that is controlled, limited or prohibited on the grounds or within the secure perimeter of a correctional facility.

Charges dropped
Any individual who has been arrested may be released from custody by the arresting agency if it is determined that there are insufficient grounds for prosecuting the individual.ÿ Authorization for this type of release may come from the arresting agency at any time during the forty-eight hours preceding the arraignment, and the time of the release will vary accordingly.

Court-ordered releases
The court may order an inmate to be released from custody at any time if the judge deems this to be the appropriate course of action.ÿ

Classification override (prison)
In the US penitentiary jargon, a decision based on either aggravating or mitigating circumstances, to assign an inmate higher or lower public risk and/or institutional risk scores and/or to an alternative institutional placement of higher of lower security and/or custody levels than is designated by either the initial classification or reclassification process.

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