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detention center

noun as in house of correction

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After the Home Depot raid, he was taken to a detention center in downtown Sacramento, where he had to sleep on a hard ceramic floor with an aluminum blanket.

The reality TV star was released Tuesday from the Montgomery County Detention Center in Maryland, a spokesperson for the Montgomery Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed to The Times.

The detention center has also come under heavy scrutiny for its reportedly “inhumane” conditions for the detainees, including food contamination and extreme temperatures.

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Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is preparing a second detention center, dubbed “Deportation Depot,” at a state prison in north Florida.

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Florida taxpayers could lose nearly all of the $218 million the state poured into its controversial Everglades detention center after a federal judge upheld her order shutting it down.

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