house of detention
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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
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
"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
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 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
They had deprived themselves of their mobility and were confined in a house of detention, where they could do no mischief except to each other.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
