How to Use in detention in a Sentence

in detention

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• Even in detention, Chavez, with a head full of tousled black hair and big brown eyes, had an easy laugh and smile.
  — Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, 6 July 2026
• Yoon remains in detention and did not attend the ruling, which is final.
  — ABC News, 9 July 2026
• Knowing that there are babies who are being assaulted right now in detention camps who don’t have a voice.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
• Soon after Chavez arrived in detention, one of the men in his cell recognized the teen’s pattern of sleeping through the day as a silent cry for help.
  — Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, 6 July 2026
• Another juvenile in detention passed around the tainted jug, according to the suit.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
• Two doctors, who are experts on mental health and deaths in detention, also reviewed the report at the news organizations’ request.
  — Perla Trevizo, ProPublica, 3 July 2026
• After 16 days in detention, the government had approved the petition for Wilber’s release.
  — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
• The detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, had been in detention at Camp East Montana for a month by then.
  — Perla Trevizo, ProPublica, 3 July 2026
• Disabled people are disproportionately represented in detention, where inaccessible conditions, inadequate medical care, and systemic neglect put lives at risk.
  — Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• After spending nearly eight months in detention facilities across the United States, Jose Enrique Ojeda Duarte was finally deported to his native Venezuela in early April.
  — Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026