detention
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Since then, he’s been confined to a dank cell at Beihai’s No. 2 Detention Center, cut off from his flock and his family, 8,000 miles away in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
She then was transferred to Pretrial Detention Centre Number 5 in Donetsk, where she shared a small, filthy cell with around 20 common-law prisoners.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Brian Waterman was arrested early evening on Thursday by the Jurupa Valley Police Department and was being held at the Robert Presley Detention Center, the sheriff’s office said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
But Carruthers, from Wigton in Cumbria, has now been released under the Home Detention Curfew Scheme, the Ministry of Justice confirmed.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Detention that afternoon was with Mr. Ferris, because the eighth-grade teachers took turns monitoring After School Detention—which probably put them in really good moods.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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