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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Jose Irizarry, a once-standout DEA agent sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for conspiring to launder money with a Colombian cartel, pauses during an interview the night before going to a federal detention center, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022.
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CBS News, 25 July 2024
Contreras has since been booked into the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s detention center.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
Alessandro Da Fonseca, Barbosa’s DoorDash ally (arrested on the same day), was waiting out the legal process with many other defendants in a Rhode Island detention center, and found that more serious fraudsters were baffled.
—Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
The Pennsylvania State Police are searching for two teens who escaped from a juvenile detention center.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
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CBS News, 25 July 2024
Contreras has since been booked into the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s detention center.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
Alessandro Da Fonseca, Barbosa’s DoorDash ally (arrested on the same day), was waiting out the legal process with many other defendants in a Rhode Island detention center, and found that more serious fraudsters were baffled.
—Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
The Pennsylvania State Police are searching for two teens who escaped from a juvenile detention center.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
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“Detention center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detention%20center. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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