jails (buildings) <p>Buildings that house places of confinement operated by a local government both for temporary detention of sentenced and unsentenced individuals and for persons serving sentences of less than one year; for longer periods of confinement and more secure than lockups, but less confining and for shorter confinements than prisons.</p> <p>Source: AAT</p> <p><a href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300006457">http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300006457</a></p>