So your evil plan to smother a helpless ICU patient was thwarted, and you were caught holding the pillow over your victim’s face - fortunately for him he’ll pull through. Unfortunately for you, you didn’t notice the security camera, and like all criminal masterminds, you explained to your victim how you came to the decision to kill him.
You were obviously arrested. The little town (in Maine, if it matters) you commited the crime in/live in has a couple of cells in the basement of the police station, but would you really be kept their until your arraignment? Or would being dangerous land you somewhere else a bit more secure instead? County jail? State prison?
Oh, one last thing, you were attempting to become a murderess, not a murderer, so that might change things given you’re a bad girl not a bad guy.
In all seriousness, though, what do they do with the newly arrested who they consider dangerous?
Well my friend D. Spent 11 months in the Travis County Jail for solicitation of Capital Murder, got the charges reduced and is on probation for ten years(he claims he was framed). He was in jail with all the other people who were awaiting trial and weren’t going anywhere. Usually the long term prisoners are segregated away from the prisoners in for a day or two at least in big lockups. We aren’t very close anymore
There is probably a county jail where they can keep you. If there are circumstances where the county jail couldn’t keep you safely, you could be kept in another county jail or a prison, if the county of custody was willing to pay the other county or state for your stay.
Generally, prisons are for persons who have been convicted of a felony and sentenced to do at least a year incarcerated, not for folks not yet convicted. Most people cool their heels in jail until after sentencing. Then they come to me…
Yes, some exceptions exist, based on available facilities and local agreements. But it usually operates as I’ve outlined above, at least in the states I’m familiar with.
I used to know two different women who were arrested, but not for murder.
One had to serve something like a month. Since far fewer women commit crimes than men, there are not as many facilities for them, so she had to serve it in a women’s prison.
The other only staying in jail for a night, and she was put in the only cell that they had for women, but it was right next to the men’s cells. She described it as extremely humiliating. (FTR, she never made it past the arraignment. The judge called the arresting officer an idiot.)