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

Examples of detention center in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Before Jarquín's asylum case was rejected by a Louisiana court in July, Sallent said he was held in Alligator Alcatraz, the Florida immigration detention center in the Everglades plagued by reports of harsh conditions. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Federal authorities released Ho Yin Mo, a district employee for Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, D-San Francisco, from an immigration detention center in Nevada after around two weeks in custody, the lawmaker announced on Friday. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026

An unassuming warehouse in south Kansas City that attracted widespread outrage earlier this year over reported plans to turn it into an immigration detention center will instead be used for infrastructure storage. — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026

Within a month of its opening, the detention center was plagued with multiple lawsuits. — Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026

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