detention center
Example Sentences
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His remarks coincided with a student walkout, with teen protesters converging on the Metropolitan Detention Center about a mile away.
From Los Angeles Times
After we were taken to the Dilley detention center, my husband was held in a separate area from my daughter and me.
From Slate
Putting a 5-year-old in a detention center generates images that no public-relations expert can spin away.
The Walmart sign has bad plastic wrapping around it that reads “Southwest Key Detention Center.”
From Slate
That’s a teen detention center.
From Slate
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
