house of detention
Example Sentences
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The party's secretary general, mouthy Eugene Dennis, was unavoidably detained�by the bars of Manhattan's federal house of detention, where he is serving a year for contempt of Congress.
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
"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
The wall suggests an asylum, a house of detention or some like place set apart for the unfortunate members of society.
From The Master of Silence A Romance by Bacheller, Irving
But if a woman bore a girl, she was to be arrayed in byssus, silk, and embroidered garments, and led forth from the house of detention amid great honors.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 by Szold, Henrietta
