The phrase "secure custody" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation in which a person is kept in a secure, guarded, and possibly isolated environment as part of their legal penalty or punishment. For example, "After being convicted of fraud, the thief was sentenced to three months of secure custody."
Party officials said they wanted the ballots to be under secure custody should other public officials ask for recounts.
One study found that children who had been detained in secure custody were significantly more likely to go on to commit sexual and violent offences in later life than those who had served sentences in open institutions, irrespective of whether they had previously committed violent or sexual offences.
Technically, the Lennons were here this time as "visitors for pleasure;" their main purpose, however, was not to enjoy themselves but to try to secure custody of, or at least visiting rights with, Yoko's daughter, Kyoko Cox, who is now nine years old.
Delhi's Tihar prison promises "safe and secure custody" of inmates, according to its website.
One hundred juvenile offenders responded to a semistructured interview that explored their experience of secure custody and their involvement in peer violence in secure facilities across Ontario, Canada.
Roughly half the respondents reported that during their last stay in secure custody, correctional staff deliberately turned a blind eye to impending peer violence.
He had divorced his wife and secured custody of the two girls.
John, 32, & Yoko, 39, who have been married since 1969, have been in this country since Aug, 13, 1971, to pursue their careers but mostly for the purpose of securing custody of Yoko's 9-year-old daughter Kyoko Cox.
But she lost herself, and when she found the situation no longer bearable, she ran away and her ex-husband secured custody.
A total of 2,637 under-18s are in secure detention, compared with 1,769 last November; the number of juveniles in custody has doubled in a decade.
Last year, of nearly 5,000 children in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, a third spent time imprisoned in a secure detention facility such as a juvenile jail.
