The selectmen of any town and the warden and burgesses of any borough may erect or lease a suitable building or apartments within their respective communities for a lockup in which persons awaiting trial or examination for offenses committed in such town or borough may be confined until their cases are disposed of according to law.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-134
Lockup
(1949 Rev., S. 654.)
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