detention centre

Noun

Meaning

a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily

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Activists demand that federal immigration authorities release all detainees from the CoreCivic detention centre. Source: Internet

According to ICE statistics, there have been 339 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the Farmville detention centre, with an estimated 350 to 400 detainees at the centre in total. Source: Internet

After crossing the land border from Turkey, a police officer at a detention centre wrote on his papers that he was 18. Sulaiman said he tried to correct him, but the officer refused to change the number. Source: Internet

After being held overnight in a detention centre, the investigator allowed Stashevsky to be freed under a pledge not to leave the city. Source: Internet

A woman pregnant with twins, who was rescued in October by Ocean Viking, previously described to MSF staff how she nearly miscarried after finding the body of her husband, who was killed in Tajoura detention centre that night. Source: Internet

Detention centre main The ICC's detention centre accommodates both those convicted by the court and serving sentences as well as those suspects detained pending the outcome of their trial. Source: Internet

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