The Jail is EverywhereNearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, which serves as a short term detention centre controlled by local sheriffs that directs people into prisons and long term incarceration. While the growing movement against incarceration and policing has called to reform or abolish prisons, jails have often gone unnoticed or, in some cases, been seen as a "better" alternative to prisons. Yet in recent decades, jails have been the