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The phrase "a detention facility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a place where individuals are held, typically for legal or correctional purposes.
Example: "The government has announced plans to build a new detention facility to accommodate the increasing number of detainees."
Alternatives: "a correctional center" or "a holding facility."
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He was expected to be assigned to a detention facility in the next few days.
Since May, Cornejo has been held at Eloy, a detention facility in southern Arizona.
When my colleagues met Norma this year, she was in a detention facility in the US.
Barack Obama will leave office with Guantánamo Bay still in operation as a detention facility.
The SCMP interview was conducted in a detention facility, with Gui flanked by security guards.
Two undocumented activists infiltrate a detention facility to confront the immigration system from inside.
The young man was taken to a detention facility in the city's Oktyabrsky district.
The Carter administration chose Fort Chaffee, Ark., as a detention facility to hold the refugees.
The importance of the effective distribution of runoff in sewer network throughout a detention facility has recently been recognized.
One medic described being removed from a hospital and brought to a detention facility by the Khmer Rouge.
Last summer, ICE arrested Jorge, sent him to a detention facility in Texas, and began deportation proceedings against him.
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