On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 14:59, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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. > You're both perfectly correct, but for the overnight holding cell / lock-up, that would just be part of the Police station, wouldn't it, so wouldn't get it's own separate tag? Thanks Graeme
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