detainee
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Shirin Ali: What goes through your head when you realize a client you’ve been representing is no longer listed on DHS’ detainee locator?
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Use of these small metal enclosures for any reason is unprecedented among detention facilities OIG has inspected and presents significant risks to detainee health and safety," the report said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
The detainee issue is part of wider US-mediated negotiations, alongside separate efforts to recover the remains of Lebanese Jewish community leaders abducted and killed during the country's civil war.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
For years, Homeland Security relied on a unit of the Department of Veterans Affairs, its financial services center, to process reimbursement claims for detainee medical care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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 Gunther Olesch
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