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I have seen these terms confused:
magenta/placenta
parody/parity
And in a more technical area, take care to distinguish:
prison/jail
parole/probation
prosecution/civil claim
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The logo for the Michigan Podiatrists' Association is a caduceus superimposed on a foot. The image always made me laugh, which was not a good thing when I was in private practice and the association was a client. 
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I got the others, Sparteye, but what distinction are you making between prison and jail?
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I regularly got my mouth twisted around on 'conSERVation' and conVERSation' a few years ago - caused no end of laughter...
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I don't know about Michigan, Bingley, but in NY jail is local (i.e., Riker's Island in NYC) and is used for terms under one year.
If you are sentenced to a term over one year, you go to a state prison. (Sing Sing is the well known one, but it a very high security one.. the more common prison is somewhere else.. way, way up state.) i am lucky, and don't have any familiarity with prisons.. and only know about jail from civic's class.
time servered in jail (awaiting/during the trial) can be applied to your prison term.
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Like of troy said, Bingley. "Jail" is a facility run by a local authority to incarcerate someone for a short term. In Michigan, a jail is owned by a city or county, and a sentence of a year or less may be served in a jail. Jails also serve to hold persons before sentencing, whether pending trial without bail or after conviction but before imposition of the sentence. "Prison" refers to a state-run facility, and is used for prisoners sentenced to longer terms.
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"Prison" refers to a state* -run facility, and is used for prisoners sentenced to longer terms.
* Or federal gov't.
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Interesting. I wasn't aware of a distinction between the words gaol and prison here.
Gaol is rarely used, googling the term only gives historic sites.
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In Canada, penitentiary is the word for federal institutions (sentences longer than 2 years)
With a sentence of 2 years less a day, you end up in the provincial system
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The only other names that I can find are- young offender institutions, special hospitals, regional secure units and prison psychiatric units - so we don;t seem to have a word that separates those on short sentences from those on long sentences, although there are various shades of prisons. Mybe it is just because we don't have a separate state and federal legal system. Whilst looking around for information, I found the following comments which I had not appreciated before. “The U.S. has both the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, including China and Russia. The U.S. incarcerates people at a rate more than 15 times that of Japan, and its prison population is more than eight times that of Italy, France, the UK, Spain, and Australia combined."
“No other democracy besides the US. disenfranchises convicted offenders for life. Many democratic nations, including Denmark, France, Israel and Poland, permit prisoners to vote as well.”http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/Prison_System.html
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