detainee
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The Department of Homeland Security has been running an online detainee locator since 2010 where anyone can look up a person being held in immigration detention.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026
The detainee issue is part of wider US-mediated negotiations, alongside separate efforts to recover the remains of Lebanese Jewish community leaders abducted and killed during the country's civil war.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"This is not the first death of a detainee at Delaney Hall, and absent decisive action, it will not be the last," he said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
In her order, Sykes barred the government from placing detainees in administrative segregation unless doing so was necessary to address a security threat to staff or the facility, or if a detainee requested it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The detainee who is wise enough to realize this will never find any cause for complaint, but only all conceivable help, to erase the memory of what he had been accused of.
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
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