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detainee

[dih-tey-nee, dee-tey-nee] / dɪˈteɪ ni, ˌdi teɪˈni /




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The Department of Homeland Security has been running an online detainee locator since 2010 where anyone can look up a person being held in immigration detention.

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

Dr. Amy Zeidan, an emergency medicine doctor and associate professor at Emory University who studies immigrant detainee health outcomes, said the VA data show detained immigrants require significant 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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