detention home

[ dih-ten-shuhn hohm ]

noun

1. juvenile detention center ( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of detention home¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Early the next morning Jack Woodvale parked the helicopter in a lot back of the city youth detention home.

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"She makes me feel like an inmate of a detention home or some place where the criminally insane are sent," stormed Dee.

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Once, he was held in the detention-home and once sent to the State Industrial school; at other times, he was placed on probation.

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Bennie's mother was accused of being unfit to care for her boy, and Bennie was temporarily installed in the Detention Home.

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That would be better than having him at the Detention Home with Mrs. Hollis.

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