[sandworm101]

There is some wiggle room. The one-year thing is more to do with how much time one is expected to serve, rather than the sentence. Time already served can also alter the math. So someone spending 6-months in jail pre-trial and then sentenced to 14 months would normally be sent back to jail as they only have 8 months remaining. And to your point, where it is very unlikely that someone will server their entire sentence prior to parol, they will normally do that time in a jail.

This isn't always a bad thing. Some convicts would rather not be moved to a new facility. Jails are normally closer to the place of arrest (usually near home) and by the point sentencing happens families have already developed some sort of routine for visitation. Sending them out of town, even if to a better facility, is not always in the inmate's best interest.