detention
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Since then, he’s been confined to a dank cell at Beihai’s No. 2 Detention Center, cut off from his flock and his family, 8,000 miles away in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
He faces a potential life sentence, and is being held at the Riverside County Southwest Detention Center with his bail set at more than $7 million.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
She then was transferred to Pretrial Detention Centre Number 5 in Donetsk, where she shared a small, filthy cell with around 20 common-law prisoners.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
The 10 experts are UN Special Rapporteurs - independent human rights specialists appointed by the UN Human Rights Council - and four four members of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Detention that afternoon was with Mr. Ferris, because the eighth-grade teachers took turns monitoring After School Detention—which probably put them in really good moods.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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