detainee

Example Sentences

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"We have written in the letter that we released your detainee here, so you should release our detainee there as well," his son said.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

There was a detainee named Margarete Buber-Neumann, who wrote an amazing memoir, Under Two Dictators.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026

Last September another detainee at the facility died after experiencing a seizure at the facility, ICE officials said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2026

Campos’s death is the second at the violation-heavy Camp Montana East and the fourth death of an ICE detainee so far in 2026.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2026

The detainee who is wise enough to realize this will never find any cause for complaint, but only all conceivable help, to erase the memory of what he had been accused of.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther