Sentence examples for detention number from inspiring English sources

Seated in a bare interview room last month, wearing a blue smock and plucking at a wristband stamped with his detention number and ordained destination – Mexico – Mendoza was sombre, soft-spoken and weakened from two weeks of fasting.

The United States government often cites detention numbers as a way to measure illegal migration.

The detention numbers can be loosely compared to data obtained by the Associated Press in 2009 as part of a Freedom of Information Act request, also based on a single day of data.

This was part of an attempt to reduce numbers at the detention center numbers, but also a fledgling effort at allowing refugees to work in Papua New Guinea.

With reports of 24,000 detainees in Iraq and 14,000 in secret detention – the numbers seem astronomical compared with the 250 or so detainees remaining in Guantánamo.

But Mr. Lane was a juvenile, and it appears from the documents that he was placed in detention for a number of days, in January 2010.

An asylum seeker has reportedly swallowed razor blades in protest at his detention, as the number of men on hunger strike on Manus Island continues to grow.

The immigration department said the bill was necessary to respond to "behaviour challenges in immigration detention" from a number of high-risk detainees.

With immigration reform stalled in Washington, Ice remains bound by a congressional "bed mandate" to keep 34,000 deportees in detention centres, a number requiring daily replenishing to replace those expelled, mostly to Latin America.

"We are aware of reports of the possible detention of a number of Crown International Group employees across China overnight on 13-14 October, including three Australians," a department spokeswoman said.

Fars, in its Persian Mutterings column, claimed that one of the reasons for the detention of a number of "activists" employed in press positions was "contact with foreign media".