NOUN
- a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
How To Use detention cell In A Sentence
- ICE hasn't listed any native Filipino on its "gangbanger" watchlist or detention cells in the past few years, although insignificant remnants of Pinoy street gangs like Akrho and Bahala Na Gang sporadically surface in known Filipino communities here and in Carson, Glendale, Eagle Rock, San Fernando Valley, Rowland Heights, West Covina and Hawthorne. Undefined
- Monthly quality assurance inspections and assessments were made of dining facilities, water-production sites, ice plants, detention cells, barbershops, and base camps.
- The change of status would also mean that Tommy has to be transferred from a detention cell to a prison room, which he has to share with other convicts.
- By the time the two aliens were installed in their barless detention cell, it resembled a small stateroom more than a cell. Chain of Attack
- If arrested, the migrants and asylum-seekers are lumped together in tiny immigration detention cells where flogging is the main form of punishment. Global Voices in English » Malaysia: Humans as Commodities
