detention center
noun
1
: a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept for a period of time
2
: a place where people who have committed crimes are kept as punishment
She spent several months in a detention center for women.
a juvenile detention center
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Despite being the attorney of record for two detainees at the Krome detention center, a Plantation immigration lawyer didn’t show up for asylum hearing of one and didn’t timely file asylum paperwork for the other.
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David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
Shortly after the French 75’s breach of the detention center, Lockjaw surveils her from his car, peering at her through binoculars.
—Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
Limited legal pathways to return Jennie Pasquarella, with the Seattle Clemency Project, is Tran's attorney and successfully gained her release earlier this year from a detention center in Seattle.
—Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
Norland Guzman Fuentes, 37, of El Salvador, was killed in the attack and Venezuelan detainee Jose Andres Bordones-Molina was also injured in the shooting, treated for his injuries and later transferred to a detention center.
—Rick Jervis, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
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David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
Shortly after the French 75’s breach of the detention center, Lockjaw surveils her from his car, peering at her through binoculars.
—Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
Limited legal pathways to return Jennie Pasquarella, with the Seattle Clemency Project, is Tran's attorney and successfully gained her release earlier this year from a detention center in Seattle.
—Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
Norland Guzman Fuentes, 37, of El Salvador, was killed in the attack and Venezuelan detainee Jose Andres Bordones-Molina was also injured in the shooting, treated for his injuries and later transferred to a detention center.
—Rick Jervis, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for detention center
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“Detention center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detention%20center. Accessed 3 Dec. 2025.
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