preventive detention

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noun

the holding of someone in jail or in an institution because he or she is regarded as a danger to the community.

English Law. imprisonment of habitual criminals for periods ranging from 5 to 14 years during which they are given corrective training or placed under psychiatric and medical care.

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Origin of preventive detention

First recorded in 1905–10

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How to use preventive detention in a sentence

He then escaped from his detention and arrived on Tverskaya Avenue to join his supporters.
Russia’s Rebel In Chief Escapes House Arrest|Anna Nemtsova|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
After two nights in detention, he was scheduled to be deported back to Turkey on Monday.
Pope-Shooter Ali Agca’s Very Weird Vatican Visit|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He is being held in pretrial detention in Baku and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015|Movements.Org|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
While in pre-trial detention, Krivov undertook two hunger strikes.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015|Movements.Org|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Perhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too.
Cigar Dealers Light Up Over Cuba News|Asawin Suebsaeng|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The cause of Haggard's mysterious detention in Rome, and of their own sudden flitting, became at once clear to her.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Thus if a man threatened to fill up your well because it stood, as he claimed, on his land, you had no preventive remedy at law.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
This detention was very vexatious, for we were not only losing a fair wind, but lying in a very exposed situation.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
It is usual to have recourse to this valuable invention only when disease is actually existing—as a preventive, it is neglected.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness|Florence Hartley
For instance, the decrease may have been due to extra preventive work done by welfare officers.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.