detention center
noun
1
: a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept for a period of time
2
: a place where people who have committed crimes are kept as punishment
She spent several months in a detention center for women.
a juvenile detention center
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But Jeff Brandes, a former Republican state senator and think tank founder, said there are prisons and airports all over the state that are more suitable locations for detainees than Florida’s new detention center in Ochopee, 44 miles west of Naples.
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Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
Yet detention center critics who jump straight to Holocaust comparisons play right into the hands of politicians who are eager to deflect from legitimate concerns about the center.
—Scott Maxwell, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2025
The final detainee who escaped in June from a New Jersey federal immigration detention center has been found in California.
—Arkansas Online, 19 July 2025
One of the migrant’s attorneys previously told OPB their client was processed into the Tacoma detention center, but he had not been granted access to her since her transfer.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2025
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Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
Yet detention center critics who jump straight to Holocaust comparisons play right into the hands of politicians who are eager to deflect from legitimate concerns about the center.
—Scott Maxwell, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2025
The final detainee who escaped in June from a New Jersey federal immigration detention center has been found in California.
—Arkansas Online, 19 July 2025
One of the migrant’s attorneys previously told OPB their client was processed into the Tacoma detention center, but he had not been granted access to her since her transfer.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for detention center
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“Detention center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detention%20center. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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