Sentence examples for is a detention from inspiring English sources

Dungavel used to be a prison, but now it is a detention centre for asylum seekers.

The only universally guaranteed child right in the United States is a detention or prison cell after a child gets into trouble.

I was taken to a building that used to be a cultural centre but now is a detention depot, in Jassim city, in the capital.

DAVIDSON: One thing that we have built since 9/11 is a detention center at Guantánamo, which is as much a legacy of 9/11 as Iraq, and is the sort of blunt instrument that you mentioned, George.

"It is important to keep in mind that this is a detention operation not a corrections environment," Lettko wrote.

When Kanyinda first realized that Wackenhut was a detention facility, he told me, he burst into a fit of tears.

Soon after, the Los Angeles Times revealed that it would be a "detention facility" and that secret Yemeni-American talks were held in Rome last year.

The two nights he'd spent in a cell 60 miles from home had been "a detention only, not an arrest".

Guantánamo was a detention camp once before, in the early 1990s.

One of his accomplices was a detention officer, who acquired 14 properties worth nearly $600,000, while making $35,568 a year in his job.

"No one has indicated there was a detention site there, not in so many words," Wilkerson said.