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detention centre

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

detention cell, bullpen

jail cell, prison cell, cell - a room where a prisoner is kept

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detention centre

, (US) detention center

n → Jugendstrafanstalt f

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A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said, aACoeYou (Assam) may justify detention centre, idea was to keep them for a minimum time.

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13 (BNA): A delegation from the Office of the Ombudsman, led by the Director of Monitoring of Prisons and Detention Facilities, Hamad Salman Taqi, recently paid a visit to the Dry Dock Detention Centre.

Ombudsman Office's delegation visits detention centre

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June 4, 2016 (EL-FASHER) - An unknown armed group has stormed a police detention centre and freed the prisoners in the locality of Saraf Umra, 258 km west of North Darfur capital, El-Fasher.