[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - police=*

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 10. Mar 2019, at 19:07, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That difference might confuse  - that's an American rather than a UK difference, I think.  Where "jail" (or even "gaol") is used in the UK it's essentially a synonym for prison. 


in Germany, the cells in a police facility would not be called a prison, AFAIK there are only “drunk tanks” (Ausnüchterungszelle / sobering cell) and people would otherwise (pre-trial detention) go to a real prison (government facility / de: JVA). There are also other places where people are forcibly confined which aren’t “prisons”, e.g. psychiatric hospitals and nursing homes. 

Cheers, Martin