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detention centre

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(Social Welfare) a place where persons (typically asylum seekers, illegal immigrants, or people awaiting trial) may be detained for short periods by order of a court
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Noun1.detention centre - a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
jail cell, prison cell, cell - a room where a prisoner is kept
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detention centre

, (US) detention center
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"Bombing of the captives' detention center is the latest war crime by the coalition led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen and adds a new page to the crimes of the aggressors," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said on Sunday.
I responded to this message and headed to the detention center. Damir told me that he was detained, when he was at work and wore a police uniform.
""When the guards noticed, the young man had already died," said the Spanish source.Apparently, on July 14, the police officers guarding the detention center had to intervene to stop a fight, involving the victim.
"You cannot separate them from their families like this," the bench had said while hearing the plea relating to the condition of the detention center in Assam.
The Port Isabel Service Detention Center, which occupies 375 acres in a remote part of South Texas just a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico, has an operational capacity of 1,175 adult detainees.
Immigrant rights activists protested outside the Hutto detention center in Texas this week in support of a woman held in solitary confinement to pressurize her into withdrawing a sexual harassment complaint against a detention guard.
(I am just waiting for instruction from court authorities just in case they need to use our detention center at Crame.
Shields is chaplain of the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga.
Parked just steps from the detention center's release gate, the roomy gleaming RV offers comfortable spaces to relax in and freshen up, as well as telephone access, food and beverages, toiletries, bus cards, area maps, a donated backpack for personal belongings, as well as the assistance of three to five trained volunteers who can help locate housing, confirm transportation, or contact government agencies and help with official forms, such as an application for a work permit.
"Following information received, the human rights organizations visited the detention center. The prisoners told that due to the humidity in the detention center they were constantly sick, and had to seek medical help.
The event was part of a campaign to close down the controversial detention center, which opened at the end of 2013.
Mohammed Al-Shabati, the brother of one of the detainees, has been in contact with his brother through the Red Cross, a human rights organization which has been permitted to visit the detention center.