Only criminal violations that originate from the San Andreas Penal Code may carry a misdemeanor or felony-level punishment with imprisonment in a county or state penitentiary.

All felonies must carry with their punishment imprisonment at the San Andreas State Correctional Facility.

All persons convicted of felony will carry their sentence at the San Andreas State Correctional Facility. All persons convicted of misdemeanor will carry their sentence at the appropriate county facility. All persons convicted will be imprisoned at the location of Officer Discretion.

Each penal code entry may include a range of time for imprisonment. While some entries dictate instances where the maximum or minimum time of imprisonment must be used, in all other instances the peace officer issuing the arrest may use their discretion, based on severity, cooperativeness of the suspect, or other criteria to decide the time within

The LSPD may set internal policies to dictate how officers should follow Imprisonment & Punishment Criteria, so long as it does not violate the minimum and maximum punishment policies stated in this Penal Code.

Each bullet number in a penal code entry refers to an applicable charge for each entry. Violating any one of the descriptions is a violation of the penal code entry.

So long as no exceptions are stated in the penal code entry, charges can be stacked for additional imprisonment. See (10)00. Exception for details.

((Persons who roleplay without a sound mind will still, in any case, be arrested and charged for the crime they commit. Technically they’d be delivered to an appropriate institution in-character but are dropped off to the local county or state jail before being sent there. They may and would not be placed with the regular prison population.))

NOTES

- For example, Murder carries a maximum punishment when it is committed against a government employee. PD  cannot tell officers to ignore that maximum punishment policy, but can tell its officers to mandate a minimum sentence otherwise, etc. Anything within the minimum and maximum time ranges stated are fair game otherwise.

* \> 45 minutes = SACF
* < 30 minutes = County Jail
* 30-45 minutes = Officer Discretion

There may be medical services, mental health centers, etc. but either way there’s no way to get out of your imprisonment because of your character type, even if it seems unethical to meet this expectation of the game experience.