detention center
noun
1
: a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept for a period of time
2
: a place where people who have committed crimes are kept as punishment
She spent several months in a detention center for women.
a juvenile detention center
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Combs remains locked up in a federal detention center in Brooklyn, awaiting his official assignment.
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Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Other big stories ➤ More than 350 residents from Marana and surrounding southern Arizona communities gathered to criticize Management and Training Corporation's refusal to communicate on whether a shuttered state prison will return as an ICE detention center.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 26 Oct. 2025
Landry and others began lobbying lawmakers and the governor's office to improve conditions at the Miami Correctional Facility, an immigration detention center in Indiana.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
On Thursday, Govea said one of his sisters got a call from their mother’s cellmate at a detention center in California City.
—Marcos Breton, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
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Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Other big stories ➤ More than 350 residents from Marana and surrounding southern Arizona communities gathered to criticize Management and Training Corporation's refusal to communicate on whether a shuttered state prison will return as an ICE detention center.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 26 Oct. 2025
Landry and others began lobbying lawmakers and the governor's office to improve conditions at the Miami Correctional Facility, an immigration detention center in Indiana.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
On Thursday, Govea said one of his sisters got a call from their mother’s cellmate at a detention center in California City.
—Marcos Breton, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Detention center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detention%20center. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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