DETENTION CENTER Definition & Meaning

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detention center

[ dih-ten-shuhn sen-ter ]

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noun

a facility maintained by the civil authorities for persons charged with a crime, immigrants awaiting deportation rulings, or sometimes witnesses before a trial.
juvenile detention center ( def ).

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of detention center¹

First recorded in 1945–50

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Currently, he is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.

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Like Columbia University activist and legal permanent resident Khalil Mahmoud, Ozturk was quickly sent to a detention center in Louisiana.

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Before Burke, who returned to Wales on Tuesday, ICE had held two German tourists in a detention center for up to six weeks.

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Now she is sitting in a Louisiana detention center, having been arrested at the airport.

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The German tourists' experiences mirrored Burke's, with both being held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego for weeks after being arrested at a southern port of entry in February.

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