Criminal cases go through three stages: investigation stage, examination and prosecution stage and trial stage. The three stages add up to the time when the suspect and the defendant are detained in the detention center.
The detention center is the place where pending prisoners are held, that is to say, prisoners are held in the detention center before the court's judgment is issued and the judgment takes effect. How long a prisoner can be locked up mainly depends on the time from his arrest to the court's judgment.
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The time limit for detention is the legal time limit for detaining criminals who are being investigated, prosecuted and tried. The detention period includes three stages: investigation stage, examination and prosecution stage and trial stage.
The public security organ may detain a criminal suspect for a maximum of seven months from the date of his arrest. The period of investigation and detention of a criminal suspect after his arrest shall not exceed two months. If the case is complicated and cannot be concluded at the expiration of the time limit, it may be extended for one month with the approval of the people's procuratorate at the next higher level.
If the investigation of the following cases cannot be concluded at the expiration of the prescribed time limit, it may be extended for two months with the approval or decision of the people's procuratorate of the province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government:
(1) Major and complicated cases in remote areas with very inconvenient transportation;
(2) Major criminal group cases;
(3) Major and complicated cases of escaping crime;
(four) major and complex cases involving a wide range and difficult to obtain evidence.
A criminal suspect may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, and if the investigation cannot be concluded after the extension of the prescribed time limit, it may be extended for another two months with the approval or decision of the people's procuratorate of a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government.
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Detention period Baidu Encyclopedia