detention center
a facility maintained by the civil authorities for persons charged with a crime, immigrants awaiting deportation rulings, or sometimes witnesses before a trial.
Origin of detention center
1- Also called house of de·ten·tion .
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How to use detention center in a sentence
The guards pulled Kevin and several others out and led them to a row of cells deep inside the detention center.
Down the hall in the immigration detention center where he was being held, a man whose psychiatric visits had been suspended because of the pandemic was hallucinating and screaming.
In Michigan, judges have sent children to locked detention centers for refusing to take medication or failing to attend online class.
Judges Are Locking Up Children for Noncriminal Offenses Like Repeatedly Disobeying Their Parents and Skipping School | by Jodi S. Cohen and Duaa Eldeib | December 22, 2020 | ProPublicaThey do that by advocating for people to be released so they are not exposed to the novel coronavirus because of the dangerous conditions inside prisons, jails, detention centers, and other locked institutions.
What the public is getting right — and wrong — about police abolition | Fabiola Cineas | October 30, 2020 | VoxBy far the most common complaint among the children screened was that it was too cold inside the detention centers, where they are generally given thin Mylar blankets to keep warm.
Unaccompanied migrant children suffer ‘inhumane and cruel experience’ in CBP custody, report alleges | Teo Armus | October 30, 2020 | Washington Post
Her eldest son, an 18-year-old, is being held separately as an adult in a detention center.
‘We Cannot Return to Guatemala’: An Immigrant Mother’s Plea | Sarah Moga | July 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe judges were not given a per capita fee for each child sentenced to the detention center.
‘Kids for Cash’: Crooked Judge, Damaged Teens, and the Perils of Zero Tolerance | Ronald K. Fried | February 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Camp X-Ray, she plays Amy Cole, a newly enlisted guard at Guantanamo Bay detention center.
‘Camp X-Ray,’ A Kristen Stewart-Starring Guantanamo Bay Film, Premieres at Sundance | Marlow Stern | January 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCouch was not sentenced to an iota of time in a juvenile detention center or prison.
But if Joe knows a corrupt clerk at the Metropolitan detention center he can confirm that the associate was actually there.
The Devil’s Drug: The True Story of Meth in New Mexico | Nick Romeo | August 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
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