detention center
Americannoun
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a facility maintained by the civil authorities for persons charged with a crime, immigrants awaiting deportation rulings, or sometimes witnesses before a trial.
Etymology
Origin of detention center
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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He had no shoes, only the orange booties given to him at a detention center.
From Salon
Although Liam has since been released, “We’ve had other students in our building also taken in. We realized a fifth grader was also at the detention center; they had just kind of disappeared.”
From Salon
“I visited the Otay Mesa Detention Center last week and there were roughly 1,200 people that were there under ICE custody,” Levin said.
From Los Angeles Times
Plainclothes security officers guard the detention center, a Ministry of Social Affairs office building in Yaoundé, the capital of the Central African country.
The first nine deportees arrived at Yaoundé airport from a Louisiana detention center last month.
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