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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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka returned to the gates of an ICE detention center days after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at the same facility.
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David Matthews, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025
Every night at midnight, Will Trim sits down to the piano in his Boston apartment and waits for lights out in the Louisiana ICE detention center where his best friend is being held.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 12 May 2025
She was then driven to New Hampshire and Vermont and flown to a detention center in Basile, La.
Her student visa had been revoked several days earlier, but she was not informed of that, her lawyers said.
—Rodrique Ngowi, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
The 1,000-bed New Jersey detention center will reopen under a $1 billion contract with management from the GEO Group, a private global lender that runs several prisons across the country.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 11 May 2025
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David Matthews, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025
Every night at midnight, Will Trim sits down to the piano in his Boston apartment and waits for lights out in the Louisiana ICE detention center where his best friend is being held.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 12 May 2025
She was then driven to New Hampshire and Vermont and flown to a detention center in Basile, La.
Her student visa had been revoked several days earlier, but she was not informed of that, her lawyers said.
—Rodrique Ngowi, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
The 1,000-bed New Jersey detention center will reopen under a $1 billion contract with management from the GEO Group, a private global lender that runs several prisons across the country.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 11 May 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 25 May. 2025.
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