The phrase "and detained in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing legal or law enforcement situations where someone is held or confined.
Example: "The suspect was arrested and detained in a secure facility pending trial."
Alternatives: "and held in a" or "and confined in a".
Yet he was later purged and detained in a labour camp for two years in 2004.
Mr. Muenter was taken to the courthouse and detained in a jail cell, Mr. Russell wrote.
When she did escape, she was picked up by the police and detained in a deportation centre.
As the practice of extraordinary rendition expanded, terrorism suspects were transported to and detained in a number of foreign prisons around the world.
Ginger Thompson, of ProPublica, obtained an audiotape reportedly of Central American children separated from their parents and detained in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Texas.
Before the war started, I joined a demonstration against Assad's regime — and I was arrested, beaten and detained in a tiny cell for five days.
Whenever Mateo visits a client or represents one in court, she runs the risk of being arrested and detained in an ICE detention center.
After weeks of rumors and dogged foreign reporting, state media had no choice but to announce that Bo Xilai — a rising star and Party Secretary of the megacity Chongqing, who reminds me of Huey Long for his flamboyant, leftist way of wielding authority — has been stripped of his power and detained in an investigation.
He was found the following October and detained in Belmarsh as a risk to national security as an al-Qaida-linked international terror suspect.
Police said a 17-year-old man had been arrested and detained in connection with an alleged assault.
The U.S. government is trying to transfer a U.S. citizen captured in Syria and detained in Iraq to Saudi Arabia in a case that challenges America's post-9/11 war powers and the right suspected terrorists have to due process.
