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  "citation": "R.S. 40:1384",
  "heading": "Prisoners; place of detention; how released; penalty",
  "text": "Any person having charge of a jail or other place of detention shall, provided sufficient facilities are available, receive any prisoner arrested by a police employee of the division and shall detain him in custody until otherwise ordered by a court, by the department, or by the police employee from whom the prisoner was received.\n\nWhoever violates this Section shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.",
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