The phrase "as a detainee" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone who is being held in custody, typically in a legal or immigration context.
Example: "The report highlighted the conditions faced by individuals as a detainee in the facility."
Alternatives: "in custody" or "while detained".
He has also been appearing intermittently on "The Colbert Report" (as a detainee whom Stephen Colbert keeps in his desk), and in July, he appeared — after being rejected the previous four years — in the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal.
Briany lives with her mother as a detainee at the Berks County Residential Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania.
Patríkios returned to Athens as a detainee "on leave" and was eventually granted a passport in 1959.
It turned out that Mr. Qaissi was not the man in the famous Abu Ghraib photographs, though he was tortured as a detainee.
Officials at the United States Central Command, which is in charge of military operations in Afghanistan, said he was not being held as a detainee.
But Mr. Donnoli, who had not returned since his 1968 emigration, spent 27 months as a detainee fighting deportation, transferred from a New Jersey jail through a series of detention centers in New Mexico and Texas.
In this case, getting close might mean something as off-limits as a visit with a detainee in Guantánamo Bay.
A separate report to General Natynczyk also concluded that the detainee beaten in June 2006 was not defined as a Canadian detainee, preventing it from being reported up the chain of command, and that the CF and Department of Defence should "be tasked to examine the detainee reporting process...to develop one consolidated process for the reporting on [Canadian Forces] detainees".
One interrogator told investigators that he "generally" threw tables around a room holding detainees, while another said she did not regard slapping a detainee as abusive.
Jeffrey D. Gordon, said military officials did not plan to respond to every assertion made by a detainee as part of his military commission defense.
We went to a room adjacent to the main hall, and as we walked in, a detainee was led out with fresh blood around his nose.
