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County incarcerates about 13,000 people — including roughly 1,500 women — throughout its network of jails watched over by sheriff’s deputies.

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The onetime deputy prime minister of Canada—convicted and incarcerated as the leader of the conspiracy Armand pursued in the pages of the preceding novel—still insists he was framed.

The unit housed incarcerated people who were considered unsafe to live with the general population because of the nature of their offenses, as well as some who had diagnoses for severe mental illnesses.

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In the past, he said, alleged drug boats would be stopped and suspects incarcerated.

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The Burbank shop runs an academy, which he supports, providing custom auto-work training for the recently incarcerated.

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