detention centre

noun

1. a place where persons (typically asylum seekers, illegal immigrants, or people awaiting trial) may be detained for short periods by order of a court

Example Sentences

While the ruling referred to a Czech case, it also applies to the entire EU and complicates Italy's plans for detention centres in Albania meant to fast-track repatriations.

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“You will need a lot of resources, planes, food, detention centres, police, more ICE officers, so I don't think it will be feasible.”

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Then, last June, he was transferred to a Moscow detention centre, where he has been detained ever since.

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Mr Combs is currently being held at a detention centre in New York, as he awaits trial on federal criminal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.

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He was arrested in an immigration raid and taken to the Heathrow detention centres.

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