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- a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
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- HAUNTING Chinese poems speaking of pain are still visible on the faded walls of the old detention centre on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay.
- So it could be argued that bottom line financial considerations were the main determinant of the four times a day musters and headcounts held in Villawood detention centre.
- The detention centre project was conceived on a grand scale.
- G4S already runs six prisons and two immigration detention centres. Times, Sunday Times
- They clash over the treatment and status of detainees held in detention centres.
- Under pressure from MEPs to take action against goods from the "laogai", or labour detention centres, commissioner Stefan Fule said the EU executive "is ready to study the effectiveness of the US law in preventing such imports. Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com
- Make anyone who whinges pay a fine, and send the money to someone in a detention centre who's homeless and separated from their family.
- Under these provisions local authorities are expected to provide Intermediate Treatment, which is designed to replace attendance and detention centres.
- Tunisia already has 13 deportation detention centres, 11 of which operate in strictest secrecy.
- Foreign prisoners can remain locked up in detention centres awaiting deportation after they serve their sentence. Times, Sunday Times
