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detention centre
noun
- a place where persons (typically asylum seekers, illegal immigrants, or people awaiting trial) may be detained for short periods by order of a court
Example Sentences
Militiamen have been accused of running detention centres where migrants are beaten to death or starved, and the Libyan coastguard is accused of sometimes filming people in the sea rather than rescuing them.
Italy has sought to process migrant claims at two detention centres in Albania but has been blocked from doing so by the Italian courts.
There she was held at detention centre in Tacoma, in Washington state.
ICE agents detained him at his university-owned Manhattan apartment and initially placed him in a New Jersey immigration facility before transferring him to a detention centre in Jena, Louisiana, according to ICE records.
Thirty officers have been charged in connection with 'gladiator fights' they sometimes 'encouraged' inside a California youth detention centre, the state's attorney general said.
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