> There are various 'prisons'. The OSM one is one kind. Police can have small ones they hold people in e.g. while drunk, or before sending on to court, courts can have their own too.
In American English, that’s a jail. Usually these are for short-term detention, from one night to several months. County jails can be quite large with several buildings (eg in Los Angeles), but the jail for a small town police deptartment might be one room attached to the police station. I believe the British spelling is “Gaol”, so “police=gaol” might be appropriate, if amenity=prison doesn’t work.
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