house of detention
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"Lieutenant Szipzr," said the court, "impaired the reputation of the country's first house of detention by being responsible for the bad spirit which prevailed in the prison for a certain period."
From Time Magazine Archive
After the attack, the Libyans turned Al Kabir into a kind of house of detention for foreign journalists, who were allowed out only for chaperoned tours.
From Time Magazine Archive
France resembles a vast house of detention where everybody is suspicious of his neighbor, where each avoids the other...
From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by John Durand
The interest of the place centres in its abbey, which since 1804 has been utilized and abused as a central house of detention for convicts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Although originally intended for vagrants, early in the 18th century it was turned into a house of detention for criminals.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward
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