detention house


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Noun1.detention house - an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court)detention house - an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court)
correctional institution - a penal institution maintained by the government
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He was released on bail from the Tokyo Detention House on March 6 after having spent 108 days in confinement as the long detention drew criticism from many legal experts in other countries.
Yesteray's extension allows prosecutors to keep Ghosn at the Tokyo detention house until New Year's Day.
The six were suspected of intentional injury and were taken into custody in the detention house in Chenzhou City, sources with the Linwu County government said.
Kiyotaka Oyama, 51, was convicted of killing his wife, who was Oyama's mother, and his foster father, and is currently waiting to be executed at the Hiroshima Detention House after his death sentence was finalized in June 2011.
TV footage from inside the Tokyo Detention House showed the trap door, the viewing room and rooms where the inmate can meet with a cleric, with a Buddhist altar and a Buddha statue.
Nishimoto was hanged at the Tokyo detention house, Makino at the Fukuoka detention house, and Kawamura and Sato at the Nagoya detention house.
Mrs Iris Baker, 56, said her son was being held in solitary confinement in the Tokyo Detention House and had been denied a chair to sit on.
The government of China raided the retreat and arrested the participants, who are now being kept in a detention house in Gaocheng County, the Connecticut-based Cardinal Kung Foundation reported.
Further, a law has been enacted that establishes monitoring boards composed of qualified members who are chosen by the Justice Commission to oversee prisons and detention houses. The boards monitor prison and detention house conditions, investigate inmate complaints and convey problems to the relevant authorities, according to Sahinbas.
Toshio Endo, indicted on charges of accepting 8 million yen in bribes and conspiring to receive 10 million yen, was released on bail from the Tokyo Detention House on Friday.