detention center

Example Sentences

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According to a recent federal class action lawsuit, a group of refugees arrested in Minnesota and flown to Texas were let go of the detention center without any documents or means of getting home.

From Salon

He had no shoes, only the orange booties given to him at a detention center.

From Salon

Although Liam has since been released, “We’ve had other students in our building also taken in. We realized a fifth grader was also at the detention center; they had just kind of disappeared.”

From Salon

“I visited the Otay Mesa Detention Center last week and there were roughly 1,200 people that were there under ICE custody,” Levin said.

From Los Angeles Times

Plainclothes security officers guard the detention center, a Ministry of Social Affairs office building in Yaoundé, the capital of the Central African country.

From The Wall Street Journal