detention home
Example Sentences
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Emile Griffith grew up as a man-child at a boys’ detention home in the Virgin Islands.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2012
For Larry's own safety, he had to be kept in the detention home, even on Christmas Day.
From Time Magazine Archive
He worked somewhere else, but he stayed there at the detention home on he weekends with Lucille.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
“Maybe they put him in a detention home or something.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
But first I was going to the detention home.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
