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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a detention system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing disciplinary measures in schools, legal systems, or facilities for holding individuals.
Example: "The school implemented a detention system to address behavioral issues among students."
Alternatives: "a disciplinary system" or "a confinement system".
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His task was to rebuild the Iraqi police force, establish a detention system and forge a new model for law and order in the country.
Amnesty's report instead describes a detention system that has not evolved since Saddam Hussein's regime, in which human rights abuses were endemic.
It details a detention system plagued by the premature closure of child abuse investigations, miscategorisation of incidents and lacking capacity to respond to complex incidents.
He will be one of just 16 other children in custody for murder in a detention system that houses more children – more than 1,400 in the UK according to 2012 figures – than any European nation other than Turkey.
But such widespread use of torture in a detention system supported by American mentors and money raises serious questions about potential complicity of American officials and whether they benefited from information obtained from suspects who had been tortured.
The federal government, which has been apprehending a growing number of immigrants, plans to use private companies to help overhaul a detention system that includes a patchwork of facilities.
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Yale-Loehr said Trump would also likely get Congress' support to further expand immigrant detention which is already at a record high and includes a family detention system that a federal judge deemed illegal.
Legislation remains an option, officials said, but the possibility of an executive order, which would bypass Congress, seems to indicate that the administration fears it may be unable to reach an agreement with lawmakers on a new detention system to replace Guantánamo.
The immigration agency, she wrote, "seemingly acknowledges it has a problem, while in actuality continues to operate a dysfunctional detention system that cannot operate without multiple transfers".
The "Guantanamo Files," 700 classified documents that "paint a stunning picture of an oppressive detention system riddled with incoherence and cruelty at every stage".
Pakistan's Supreme Court identified him as one of the people held in a secret detention system.
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