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detention center
[ dih-ten-shuhn sen-ter ]
noun
- a facility maintained by the civil authorities for persons charged with a crime, immigrants awaiting deportation rulings, or sometimes witnesses before a trial.
Word History and Origins
Origin of detention center1
Example Sentences
He pointed to three recently detained university students who have been taken to a remote detention center in Louisiana, where they don’t have easy access to representation.
She spent time in a juvenile detention center.
On Thursday, lawyers for these individuals told a federal court that the government was preparing to summarily deport them to El Salvador, where they would be indefinitely confined at a notorious detention center.
The administration had scheduled to fly more than 50 migrants from an immigration detention center in Texas to El Salvador, using the rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act, The New York Times reported.
Abrego Garcia said that he had recently been moved to a different detention center with better conditions, Van Hollen told media Friday.
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