The phrase "detainee about" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a person who has been detained or held by authorities for questioning or investigation. Example: The detainee about whom we were most concerned was finally released after several days of intense questioning.
An administration official said Oman agreed to accept the six Yemeni detainees about a year ago.
[The government] is co-operating fully with investigations into allegations made by former Libyan detainees about UK involvement in their mistreatment by the [Gaddafi] regime.
Two families said they had not told the detainees about relatives who had died, to spare them the pain.
The psychologist said one incident between two detainee families, which saw one moved to Australia, sparked some conversations among detainees about getting transferred.
[The government] will co-operate fully with investigations into allegations made by former Libyan detainees about UK involvement in their mistreatment by the Gaddafi regime.
The article also misstated the number of detainees about whom the documents offered the first public look because they had been transferred from Guantánamo without going through a hearing process instituted in 2004.
Government data, in fact, show that the number of complaints from detainees about sexual abuse inside immigration detention facilities did not decline in 2010 from 2009, despite the administration's pledge to enact reforms.
This year he tried to have the Legislature prohibit "sanctuary cities" that restrain the police from asking detainees about immigration status, but the measure failed after Republican business leaders opposed it.
A hunger strike among detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who have been imprisoned by the United States military without trial — some for more than a decade — is continuing to grow, although there is sharp disagreement between the military and lawyers for the detainees about how many are participating.
