detention center

[ dih-ten-shuhn sen-ter ]

noun

1. a facility maintained by the civil authorities for persons charged with a crime, immigrants awaiting deportation rulings, or sometimes witnesses before a trial.
2. juvenile detention center ( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of detention center¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Prosecutors said that in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where he is being held, Combs had flouted rules regarding communications and phones and was orchestrating contact with witnesses to buy himself out of the case with false testimony.

From Los Angeles Times

Vandenbush was booked into the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center for sending harmful material to a minor, contacting a minor for sexual purposes and arranging to meet a minor for sexual purposes.

From Los Angeles Times

But in a motion filed Monday, the music mogul’s lawyers contend that what investigators actually seized from his Metropolitan Detention Center cell in Brooklyn was “attorney-client privileged material,” including handwritten notes by Combs.

From Los Angeles Times

Prosecutors also rejected criticism of the conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, citing an interview from the star's lawyer Marc Agnifilo, who said "food’s probably the roughest part" of Mr Combs' adjustment to life behind bars.

From BBC

Detention Center in the city of Riverside.

From Los Angeles Times