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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The partial answer, one that feels weirdly isolated from just about everything else in the show, is that the detention center has a drama program whose teacher (Bat-Chen Sabag) sees something extraordinary in him—the same thing that makes Zoro perceive Dean as superior and thus worth protecting.
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Judy Berman, Time, 2 May 2025
The Bluebonnet immigration detention center The Bluebonnet facility, located 200 miles west of Dallas, is privately run by the Management and Training Corporation under a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
—USA Today, 1 May 2025
Held in brutal detention center Roshchyna went missing in August 2023.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
He was taken to 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan, then to an immigration detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, before ending up in a Louisiana detention center, his attorneys said.
—Armando Garcia, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
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Judy Berman, Time, 2 May 2025
The Bluebonnet immigration detention center The Bluebonnet facility, located 200 miles west of Dallas, is privately run by the Management and Training Corporation under a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
—USA Today, 1 May 2025
Held in brutal detention center Roshchyna went missing in August 2023.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
He was taken to 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan, then to an immigration detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, before ending up in a Louisiana detention center, his attorneys said.
—Armando Garcia, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Detention center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detention%20center. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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