On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 01:35:49PM -0400, Thomas Hoffmann wrote: > In reading jail(8), I suddenly came upon the term "prison". In fact the > term "prison" is used 30 times in jail(8), while the term "jail" is used > 228 times. Is this use of the term "prison" intentional? In reading jail(8) > it is certainly not clear to me whether "prison" is being used as a > synonym for "jail" or is in fact a separate concept within a jail that has > not been previously defined. > > The Handbook section on jails makes no mention of the term "prison". > > Shouldn't jail(8) be consistent in its use of "jail" versus "prison" if in > fact it has no special meaning? >
The usage of 'prison' in the jail(8) manual is synonymous with 'jail.' Glen
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