Custody Orders: provide correctional agencies with the authority to detain an offender.
Arrest Warrant: authorizes custody until the offender is given the opportunity to plead before a Court of Law. The document lists:
Charges: lists all offenses the individual has been charged with.
Expiry date: expires on a specified date. If the warrant expires before all charges have been disposed of in a court, a further order authorizing incarceration must be obtained. Authority to hold the offender expires with the warrant.
Court date: authorizes movement to a specified court on a specified date.
Appearance Order: authorizes custody for a stated period of time, and movement to a specified destination on or before a specified date.
Charges: lists the offenses that an offender has been charged with.
Expiry date: expires on a specified date. If the order expires before all charges have been disposed of in a court, a further order authorizing incarceration must be obtained. Authority to hold the offender expires with the Appearance Order.
Court date: An Appearance Order authorizes the movement of an offender to a specified court on a specified date.
Detainer Order: authorizes custody until all charges on the document have been dealt with by the courts. Does not authorize the movement of the offender.
Charges: lists the offenses that an offender has been charged with.
Expiry date: In some jurisdictions, a Detainer does not expire.
Court date: authorizes only detention, and does not provide a court date. The authority to move an offender to court must be secured in the form of a judge's order for attendance.
Sentence Order: authorizes custody for a specific period of time. Expires when the sentence specified on the document has been fully served.
Charges: lists the offenses that an individual has been charged with.
Counts: Each charge listed is accompanied by an indicator of how many times the offender has been charged with the particular offense. Each count is subject to a court disposition (not guilty, dismissed or found guilty).
Sentences: Each count on which the offender has been found guilty is accompanied by a sentence authorizing custody of the offender for a specified period of time. Sentences may be concurrent (sentences that are served at the same time), or consecutive/accumulative (sentences that are served one after another).
Non-Custody Orders: do not provide authority to hold offenders.
Notification order: grants a correctional agency the authority to inform other correctional/police agencies, victims, etc. of an offender's release.
Judge's Order for Attendance: grants the authority to move an offender from a correctional/police facility to a court.