Sentence examples for as a detention from inspiring English sources

Dungavel was opened as a detention centre in September 2001.

His cell had been used at some point as a detention area for German soldiers.

Barack Obama will leave office with Guantánamo Bay still in operation as a detention facility.

At one point, the officers ordered out the passengers on a public bus and used it as a detention center.

Human-rights groups and local residents oppose plans to use an old military base outside Athens as a detention centre.

Gen. Hamdi Bedeen, denied that the army was engaging in torture or using the museum as a detention center.

But the Karnes detention facility was repurposed as a family detention center in 2014 when a growing number of Central American mothers, children and unaccompanied minors entered the U.S., setting off a storm of political controversy.

The T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas, originally established as a family detention center, also had a widespread pattern and practice of officer misconduct and sexual assault.

But he will not serve his sentence in the cellblock run by the United Nations as a temporary detention center.

Transfers of larger numbers of detainees in a single round was more typical of the Bush administration, which established Guantánamo as a wartime detention facility in 2002.

Ending the use of Hutto as a family detention facility in 2009 left only one family facility in operation – with less than 100 beds – in Berks County, Pennsylvania.