Sentence examples for detention from from inspiring English sources

We reduced the legal limit for pre-charge detention from 28 to 14 days.

Scaling back pre-charge detention from 28 to 14 days is now largely agreed.

Detainees are subjected to abuse and sometimes even death — 107 people died in immigration detention from 2003 to 2010.

Mr. Paterson exempted other locally administered programs like special education and youth detention from the cuts as well.

What matters is its central figure: a touching, troubled preadolescent boy, locked into a house of detention from which he ­escapes.

She chaired San Francisco's Advisory Committee for Adult Detention from 1966 to 1968, and in 1969 she won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

The bill does expand the limit to seven days of detention, from two days, though under some circumstances that could be repeatedly extended by six-month periods.

As for Mr Brown, he has revived the "totemic Blairite" policy on terrorism - raising pre-charge detention from 28 to 56 days if he can.

According to the report, the man asked to be released from detention and from hospital so that he could go home to die surrounded by his family.

Though grand jury secrecy laws prohibit most people with information about material witness detentions from talking about the cases, Ms. Brown continued, the witnesses themselves are free to speak.

Janneh knows about the secret government detentions from experience.