The phrase "a detainment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to the act of holding someone in custody or confinement, often in legal or law enforcement situations.
Example: "The suspect was taken into custody and faced a detainment of several hours before being formally charged."
Alternatives: "an arrest" or "a detention".
Afterward, the police put him in a detainment room for him to sober up and is currently being detained for investigation in accordance to law.
On February 7 , 2007 the jury unanimously convicted my mother, and the police took her into custody and transported her to a holding cell in the Rose M. Singer Center, a detainment facility on Rikers Island.
Then came the creation of a detainment camp in an American naval base in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, which Mr Bush argued was beyond the reach of the American courts.
In 1995, federal officials canceled its contract for the management of a detainment center in Elizabeth, N.J., after a melee broke out and it came to light that undocumented immigrants had been abused by poorly trained guards.
Mr. Al-Dhaher fled Iraq 10 years ago, after an odyssey that took him from the Basra School of Fine Arts, where he graduated near at the top of his class, to the rebellion by Iraqi Shiites against Mr. Hussein, to capture by the Republican Guard, release, surrender to American troops and two years in a detainment camp near the Saudi border.
When they arrived, they imprisoned sent to a detainment camp in Beau-Bassin.
Not at the Guantánamo of George Bush, but at a reconstituted detainment centre – transparent, accessible, lawful – a living monument not only to past wrongs but to our present resolve to combat terrorism with methods befitting a nation committed to the rule of law.
A1 An Iraqi prisoner was killed by gunfire when he tried to escape from an American detainment camp in Baghdad.
But the company continued to distribute its remaining inventory of the original Jack3d and OxyElite Pro, the F.D.A. said, which prompted the agency to issue an administrative detainment order for the products and ask the company to destroy them.
Youth in this study were on probation for a variety of reasons, ranging from legal infractions not warranting detainment to recently finishing a detention sentence and transitioning back to non-detained status.
In the years since, ICE has implemented stringent safeguards to protect against the possibility of a citizen's detainment or removal, including a new nationwide policy to insure that detainees with mental conditions or disorders are identified, and appointed qualified counsel to represent them in removal proceedings.
