Sentence examples for put in a detention from inspiring English sources

"It is a disgrace that children are put in a detention centre.

You either had to be put in a detention home or you were put in a foster home.

After another strip search and a long interrogation, the pastors were reunited with the children and put in a detention camp.

His most recent book, "Shadow," tells the story of an Afghan boy who flees to Britain, only to be put in a detention center as he fights to stay in the country.

John, 27, from Eritrea, said two months ago he was taken by police, flown to Marseilles and put in a detention center.

And you know, then I discovered that a week before my brother died, that he finally told my mother that he had been molested when he had been put in a detention center.

Last month Mr. Bradley, a construction worker who says he has no criminal record in either the United States or New Zealand, was hauled from his home in handcuffs and put in an immigration detention center in Elizabeth, N.J., and told he was going to be deported.

"The politicians turn into little bitches when they're put in a little pre-trial detention for 20 to 70 days," the activist Alexe told me.

Repeat runaways are not put in juvenile detention but in a special city shelter for up to a month, receiving counseling.

It was on the eve of another National Day, in 1968, that the security police suddenly arrested me and put me in a detention center without any explanation.

She was robbed at gunpoint, abandoned by a smuggler, saw dead migrants in the Arizona desert, and spent two days walking with no food or water, before the Border Patrol caught her and put her in a detention center in Phoenix.