detainee

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As of Tuesday morning, charges had not been filed against the second detainee.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

"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

At the same time, a third detainee died in ICE custody in 2026 earlier this week, this time in an ICE camp in the Texas desert.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 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