The number needed to detain is the number of people judged to be at risk who would need to be detained to prevent one incident of subsequent violence.
The lawyer said local officials knew that Mr. Li had more information on the plight of children in Bijie, and so the officials wanted to detain him to keep him away from other reporters.
"The only reason they can talk to them is in order to determine whether they are a terrorist, [but] it seems to me there is a question to be answered about whether it should be possible to detain somebody, to keep them for six hours, to download their mobile phone without any need for any suspicion at all.
The only thing the ruling does in the ongoing litigation over the 1997 Flores settlement ― which in part regulates how child migrants are detained ― is to keep immigration authorities from detaining migrant kids with their mothers indefinitely.
Beijing is in security lockdown for the congress, with rights groups claiming that dissidents have been detained or told to keep a low profile ahead of the meeting.
Or you may be detained to undergo re-education.
He later helped stampede Congress into passing the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which endorsed illegal C.I.A. prisons where detainees may be tortured and established kangaroo courts in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to keep detained foreigners in custody essentially for life.
Mr Yao says he was detained five times last year to keep him quiet during politically sensitive occasions, including the NPC session last March.As usual, China is preparing for the upcoming parliamentary meeting with a propaganda blitz about the session's importance as a conduit for public opinion.
GEO and CoreCivic also support individual policies that would keep more bodies behind bars; a GEO lobbyist recently wrote a bill in Texas that would make it easier to keep detained immigrant children in the same facilities as their parents.
President Donald Trump's administration has vowed to prosecute all adults who cross the border illegally but its policy of separating immigrant children from parents met fierce international criticism so it is now trying to keep detained families together while the parents await trial.
His central proposal would ban government contracts with privately-owned prisons, aiming to curb an "over-incentive to arrest, jail and detain, in order to keep prison beds full".
