The phrase "avoid detention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is trying to prevent being held in custody or being punished, often in a school setting.
Example: "Students should follow the rules to avoid detention after school."
Alternatives: "steer clear of detention" or "prevent detention".
Because of that delay, several opposition participants managed to avoid detention by fleeing Russia after their homes were searched.
He said that he was able to avoid detention recently because he had created multiple Facebook accounts with fake identities.
There have been cases where minors have been used and trafficked by unrelated adults in an effort to avoid detention.
But immigrant advocates contend that most migrants are bringing their children to escape violence and poverty, not as bargaining chips to avoid detention.
The "Know Your Rights" session was organized by the Legal Aid Justice Center, a group of pro bono lawyers, to help people avoid detention in the future.
Jose Miguel Mikee" Arroyo, who was seen as a backroom operator during his wife's troubled nine years in office, later posted bail to avoid detention.
Those migrants had avoided detention during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
If they had paid a smuggler and snuck into America, she noted, they probably would have avoided detention in Hutto.
Contrast that with the handling of leaders of Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Nuclear disaster (who have avoided detention throughout a multi-year investigation) or those at the helm of the now bankrupt Takata airbag company, who have escaped any penalties despite several dozen deaths from shrapnel in exploding airbags.
Other targets of the Chavez regime avoided detention by fleeing to the United States where many applied for asylum.
When she spends nights away from home to avoid possible detention herself, he begins to suspect that she has taken a lover.
