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
I learned, moreover, to know one suffering which is perhaps the sharpest, the most painful that can be experienced in a house of detention apart from laws and liberty.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The large house of detention by St. Andrea delle Frate was already full, but the people continued to hold out.
From The Eternal City by Sir Hall Caine
They strongly urged the chief, therefore, to bind him within the house of detention, the prison house, where the chief's enemies were wont to be imprisoned.
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith
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