The crime of smuggling was not sentenced to the detention center for three months.

It depends on the specific situation. If it violates the law and does not constitute a crime, it will only be given administrative detention. The longest administrative detention is 15 days, and the penalty is not more than 20 days. Upon the expiration of the detention period stipulated in the administrative penalty decision, you can leave the detention center. Anyone suspected of committing a crime shall be detained. Criminal detention is generally 14 days, and the longest is 37 days.

Family members may consider entrusting a lawyer to the detention center to meet the criminal suspect, and carefully understand the specific process of the whole case and his confession to the public security organ. After the meeting, the lawyer will judge the circumstances of the crime and provide legal help and apply for bail pending trial in time; If the case is transferred to the procuratorate or the court, the defense lawyer can go to the procuratorate or the court to read the papers, collect the confessions, documentary evidence, physical evidence and other relevant evidence of the criminal suspect and other accomplices accused by the investigation organ, make a good defense plan after in-depth study, and ensure that the defendant is innocent, mitigated, exempted from punishment or declared suspended during the trial, so as to protect the rights and interests of the defendant to the maximum extent. The people's procuratorate shall make a decision to transfer the prosecution to the public security organ within one month, and the major and complicated cases may be extended for half a month; When trying a case of public prosecution, the people's court shall pronounce a judgment within two months after accepting it, and no later than three months. However, this five to six months is only a possible time, and the specific time may be shorter. If there are special circumstances such as the withdrawal of the lawsuit by the procuratorate, it will take more time.

A sentence of three months counts as imprisonment. In the popular sense, "imprisonment" refers to the occurrence of criminal cases and the actual punishment, not necessarily the transfer to prison. Even if the court only sentenced to three months of criminal detention, it is also a criminal punishment.

Legal Analysis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Procedure Law

Article 170 The people's procuratorate shall examine the cases transferred for prosecution by supervisory organs in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Law and the Supervision Law. If the people's procuratorate considers it necessary to make supplementary verification after examination, it shall return it to the supervisory organ for supplementary investigation, and may make supplementary investigation on its own if necessary.