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Discover LudwigThe term "detention area" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this term to describe a place where someone is held in official custody, such as a jail, prison, or police station. For example, "The prisoners were taken to the detention area for processing."
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His cell had been used at some point as a detention area for German soldiers.
The detainees were taken by truck to a fenced-in detention area.
Mr. Ali was held for about two weeks at a division-level detention area.
There they waited for days in an even more disgusting detention area, they said, until the Rafah crossing opened.
The police denied this, and Mr. Presser of the A.C.L.U. said legal monitors inside the detention area had received no complaints of the alleged brutality.
The video does not show Ms. Gotbaum being taken to the detention area, which was on a different level, moments later.
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Stormwater detention areas (SDAs) play an important role in treating end-of-the-farm runoff in phosphorous (P) limited agroecosystems.
Some of the 3,500 arrested had to sleep in places like court detention areas.
"Short-term detention conditions in some ways continue to be inadequate – access to food, cold conditions inside the detention areas.
The Met will start using them in 32 police station detention areas across London in a pilot scheme beginning in October.
Some retail chains have less-elaborate detention areas, using storage rooms or offices instead of jails, and some stores have more direct and regular dealings with police.
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