How To Use Detention In A Sentence

The police had a good defence to the claims in false imprisonment and unlawful detention. Times, Sunday Times
The detention of at least two of the three lawyers in recent days appears to be linked to recent developments regarding the blind, self-taught legal activist Chen Guangcheng.
The convention allows for lawful detention of children for the shortest possible period of time and as a matter of last resort.
The shell-shocked stowaway was discovered running around the immigration detention centre at Manchester Airport after a flight from Jamaica.
Little protest as to unlawful detention, the necessity of charges, et cetera. THE LAST RAVEN

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He also worked as a counselor at a juvenile correctional detention centre.
Even though he had been sentenced to detention, the authorities did not have to send Joe to prison.
The resolution refers specifically to detention centres and humanitarian aid.
At most, it might be called investigative detention which does not require cautioning a person or advising him or her of a right to retain and instruct counsel.
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
Both detention and compulsory questioning need to be authorised by a warrant issued by a prescribed authority.
Monthly quality assurance inspections and assessments were made of dining facilities, water-production sites, ice plants, detention cells, barbershops, and base camps.
For a convict sentenced to criminal detention, the detention house shall execute the sentence.
He was immediately seized by Canadian immigration authorities and has been held in detention since February.
And yet Judge Luttig brushes this language aside, seizing upon a different sentence in the Endo opinion: The fact that the Act and the [executive] orders are silent on detention does not of course mean that any power to detain is lacking. Is That Legal?: terrorism Archives
The applicants have claimed that their removal and detention constituted wrongful imprisonment and deprivation of liberty.
Detention without charge beyond the normal 24 hours is permissible in certain situations.
After just getting out of detention, he was in a pretty sour mood.
As to the latter, Judge Berzon in her opinion said, “Here, however, Coalition has not proven except by assertion that the remaining detainees have no relationship with anyone who could appropriately serve to litigate the legality of the detention.” The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
After being held for approximately 2 weeks in immigration detention, the warrants for my arrest in respect of the alleged extraditable offences were issued.
She's had four detentions this term.
There were a further 303 prisoners held under administrative detention, without trial.
He has faced numerous anxious moments over the years, spending time in immigration detention centres and winning last-minute reprieves.
You are in detention in the sense of being detained and you may be detained even though you are not confined to a particular place.
Detention centres in Uganda are supposed to be "gazetted" - placed on an official government register - in order to be considered legal. AllAfrica News: Latest
She was sexually abused as a child, she only completed grade 9, and she contracted Hepatitis C apparently while in detention.
Some cover personal injury, loss or damage to property and alleged unlawful detention. The Sun
Here it's not even suggested that continuing indefinite detention has anything to do with ‘investigating and preventing subversive activity’.
In the same three-month period, complaints for the central area included five for incivility, seven for assault, one for racial behaviour, and one for unlawful detention.
Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.
Reports of torture and mass executions in Serbia's detention camps have outraged the world's religious leaders.
If a detainee's family or associates somehow find out about the detention, they cannot publicly comment on it in any way.
He was described as neither fit for questioning nor detention, but remains under house arrest.
According to the report, 2.1 million Americans spent 2002 in local jails, state and federal penitentiaries and juvenile detention facilities.
Such a system of extralegal detention, sometimes called black jails, "damages the legitimate rights of petitioners and seriously damages the government's image, " the article said.
Some counter-terrorism experts have raised questions about the significance of the Pentagon's figures, noting that the number of so-called "recidivist" detainees represents only a small portion, about 12 percent, of the approximately 520 detainees who have been released from Guantanamo since the detention facility was opened in January 2002. Safe To Release?
What is the specific legislation under which, if, a 15-year old boy heaves a brick in somebody's window and he has done it many times before, he might end up in detention?
The Presidency may also delegate a judge or a staff member of the court to supervise the conditions of detention.
Police spokesman Morten Nielsen said those arrested will be taken to Nuuk, the semiautonomous Danish territory's capital, and kept in detention. 14 Greenpeace activists arrested on Greenland oil rig
A hearing is likely today at which he can challenge the legality of his detention. The Sun
Someone mentioned that there has been a rash of suicides in British juvenile detention.
TV footage from inside the Tokyo Detention House showed the trap door, the viewing room and rooms where the inmate can meet a cleric, with a Buddhist altar and a Buddha statue.
JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kiran, the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the secretary of Homeland Security over what it calls unlawful searches and detentions at airports. CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2009
Women are more likely to end up in county jails because INSrun detention centers sometimes can not handle females.
The jobs, and many others that could be called thankless, fall to inmates at the Wicomico County Detention Center. Undefined
Maybe then the juveniles will be coming out of detention as reformed people, not as crime masterminds!
Savi's house and shop were sacked as the crowd moved toward the commercial capital away from the site of detention.
She said his detention was unlawful and damages should be assessed. The Sun
The lengthy detention of scores of people without trial as well as hundreds of cases of torture and forced confessions on sedition charges could also be investigated.
Ashcroft's immediate response to the attacks was to sink into a dark Orwellian morass of secret detentions, warrantless wiretaps, and eavesdropping on lawyers.
The prisoners were discharged from the detention camp.
The effect of the original bill would also have been to allow house arrest and detention without trial.
Children in detention exhibited symptoms including bed-wetting, sleep walking and night terrors.
The soldier is being held at a detention centre in Kandahar where he will be kept until he is charged. Times, Sunday Times
There is in the penumbra of the USA Patriots Act the rendition of prisoners, the detention of however many anonymous suspects without even the pretense of due process, not to mention legal representation, the perpetual suspension of civil liberty, a new blatancy. Victor Navasky: The Difference Between Being Opinionated (Bad) and Having an Opinion (Good)
What a lucky day Emma thought to herself as Mrs. Watson held out the yellow slip admitting her to the in school detention room.
His army medical records note that immediately after his arrest he was examined and found to be fit for detention.
Pending a successful appeal, Downing could claim for wrongful arrest and 27 years unlawful detention.
What, indeed, would be the point of establishing elaborately protective rules of criminal procedure if they could be evaded by simply relying on administrative detention?
As an innocent man, his own government consented to his arbitrary detention and torture by a foreign power.
The biological positivists could only propose indeterminate detention or extinction for such categories of offender.
He has been in detention in Bali since he was arrested there on 14 June 2000 for overstaying his tourist visa.
The Opposition says the indefinite detention of children for the purposes of law enforcement is a national disgrace, and it vows to release all children from detention centres if it wins government.
The International Committee of the Red Cross documented what it called credible information about U.S. personnel disrespecting or mishandling Korans at the Guantanamo detention facility and pointed it out to the Pentagon in confidential reports during 2002 and early 2003, an ICRC spokesman said Wednesday. David Corn: Has Pentagon Spokesman Been Caught in a Koran-related Fib?
Presumably even a substantially revamped CSRT, on remand from the D.C. Circuit, would not issue revised detention decisions for quite some time -- to be followed by yet further D.C. Circuit review. Balkinization
Turlough O'Connor from a crannoge, after he had drowned his keepers; from which it would appear such structures might be used for prisons, and, probably, would be specially convenient for the detention of hostages. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
The legislation provides for the detention of suspected terrorists for up to seven days.
He claims the development plans would scoop out a lot of the woods and natural habitat for detention ponds to control flooding in a gated development of million-dollar homes.
He described the detention without trial of political opponents as a cowardly act.
The problem in Endo was not that Endo's detention violated her constitutional rights. Is That Legal?: terrorism Archives
Little protest as to unlawful detention, the necessity of charges, et cetera. THE LAST RAVEN
The mandatory detention requirements that took effect this year, a dramatic increase in long-term incarcerated aliens, and the rise in sophisticated smuggling operations have placed unexpected burdens on INS detention capabilities. President Asks Congress For Embassy Security Funding
Her son, Sipho, was poisoned with a rare substance called thallium, while in detention with a friend, Topsy ANC Daily News Briefing
The indefinite detention without trial of foreign nationals under emergency terror laws is incompatible with European human rights laws, the Law Lords have ruled.
Torture, murder, and detention without due process are actions of roque nation, not those of one claiming to pursue democracy and freedom. Think Progress » Congressional rubber stamp of military commissions in doubt.
Unexpectedly faced with detention in the post guardhouse, he made a desperate break for freedom and received a mortal bayonet wound.
Altering the logs was a crime warranting a grounding at home and one leading to detention and mandatory group therapy at school. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Hishamudin ruled that their detention was unlawful and done in bad faith as they were denied access to family members and lawyers.
Many claim human rights breaches or unlawful detention. The Sun
I don't know what I wanted to accomplish, but what I did get out of it was a week of after school detentions from Mrs. K.
Following worker demonstrations in 1970 he was elected chairman of the workshop strike committee and spent several days in detention.
He was sentenced to periods of detention in a Young Offenders' Institution.
In wartime, Congress has the power to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus - which permits a court to examine the lawfulness of executive detention.
Padilla should not be exempt from detention simply because he managed to elude capture and make his way to this country.
Nor may the clamper justify detention of the car after the owner has indicated willingness to comply with the condition for release: the clamper cannot justify any delay in releasing the car after the owner offers to pay and there must be means for the owner to communicate his offer. Clamping And The Law: Guest Post
I didn't know anything about detention centres and I'd like to think I'd be the same with any kid who needed a bit of a bunk up.
Detention without any charges and without any court review can last an entire lifetime.
“See Ernest Dowson, page seventy-nine, a thin book of thin verse ladled out with porridge to young women detentioned at Mills Seminary,” Forrest went on. CHAPTER III
It's planned to turn part of the site into a detention centre for the immigration service.
Previously Russell Gordon spent 48 hours in detention after breaking a window of a court in Sopot as he was enraged because the judge did nothing to ensure his wife's safety during a court session. Global Voices in English » Serbia: Blogging for Justice and Protection
That included two months in a youth detention centre. Times, Sunday Times
We get detentions and suspensions for dilly-dallying like that, why shouldn't teachers?
Police and security forces continued to deny the arrest and detention.
We observed surface detention over hillside and sheet flow on denuded and gullied areas during rainfall.
The reference to detention (my emphasis) appear to show that the Customs had a right to detain goods at any rate if their true value had not been declared.
Some counter-terrorism experts, the magazine said, have raised questions about the significance of the Pentagon's figures, noting that the number of so-called "recidivist" detainees represents only a small portion, about 12 per cent, of the approximately 520 detainees who have been released from Guantanamo since the detention facility was opened in January 2002. Daily News & Analysis
High Commissioner for Refugees visit the detention center twice a week to assess those requests.
In Uganda, for example, we have documented long-term incommunicado detention, torture and, in some cases, deaths of alleged treason and terrorism suspects at the hands of the government's Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force. Maria Burnett: How Not to Address the Uganda Bombings
Government alleged that these persons had been engaged in treasonable conspiracies, and, the President having exercised his legitimate right in suspending the Habeas Corpus Act, he was not prepared to say that the detention of those persons was illegal, or demanded more decided Imperial Parliament
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.
He described the detention without trial of political opponents as a cowardly act.
Then he was shackled in handcuffs, leg irons, and a belly chain and taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
These laws lead to arbitrary arrests and detentions for long periods without any preliminary trial.
Our family visited one of your immigration detention centres late in September.
During his detention, he became a cause célèbre among tech activists, who held large protests outside the offices until shamefaced executives dropped their complaint against him.
With a history of military service and labour detention camps, these provisions are not surprising.
If we are to arrest Protestant terrorists who are not chargeable (for the same evidential reasons which lead us to resort to detention rather than prosecution for many Provisionals), then we need to extend our policy. MoD took softer line on loyalist paramilitaries, secret files reveal
There is no warrant for the long-term or indefinite detention of a non-UK national whom the Home Secretary wishes to remove.
In theory, the Communist Party allows citizens to lobby the central government on matters of local corruption, the illegal seizure of land and extralegal detentions.
She used the meeting to single out Syria for criticism on its human rights record, especially what she calls arbitrary detentions of democracy activists in that country. CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2005
If the offending remains serious or persistent, the team can arrange for closer control of the young person through electronic tagging, intensive supervision, or ultimately by custodial detention.
The resolution refers specifically to detention centres and humanitarian aid.
He was later held in Bosnian Serb-run detention centres from June to November 1992, during which time his weight dropped from 90kg to 55kg (198 to 121lbs), she added. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
Reports of torture and mass executions in Serbia's detention camps have outraged the world's religious leaders.
Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.
A senior U.S. military official in Afghanistan called Kabir a "significant detention". Latest Articles
For these offences he was variously fined, sent to a Detention Centre, and given a suspended prison term.
It also found that the Migration Act contravened international law by barring any judicial review of detention.
The detention of children without a coherent rationale is institutional child abuse.
The detention and trial of some presidium leaders, and the rapprochement with other members of the elite also reflects some of the proposals.
Damian Green announced the intention to 'minimise' detention of children in immigration centres, a climbdown from earlier plans to end the previous government's practice. Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
Typically, James would be given a detention and training order (DTO), in other words a custodial sentence, for around four months. Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk
If the risk of inhuman conditions in detention cannot be discounted, then the warrant must be deferred. Times, Sunday Times
So it is heartening to see how the movement against detention is growing. Times, Sunday Times
The interview makes specific reference not only to the more recent detention of activists in Armenia and Azerbaijan, but also to the 10 May dispersal of youth protesting a flower festival held a little over a week after the 30 April massacre of students in a Baku university. Global Voices in English » Azerbaijan: Blogger response to University massacre
Australian consular officials were due to visit Mr Hu in detention yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Even when Mr. Taylor reminds Lisa and I about our detention I only experience a slight tremble.
They were sentenced to 12 months' detention in a young offender institution.
We never see him again; he has become one of the United States' new crop of ‘disappeared,’ an uncharged suspect held in secret detention somewhere in the state's burgeoning anti-terror gulag.
He said sanctions which could feature in such a charter would range from detention to permanent exclusion.
We will be asking for an end to detentions and deportation, the abolition of security certificates and the regularization of all non-status migrants.
The case brings into sharp relief some of the constitutional concepts we've been studying, as does the Blair government's re-enactment of detention-without-trial legislation.
He was sentenced to ten years detention in a young offenders' institute. Times, Sunday Times
We have wanted, on the Intelligence Committee, the minority party, to do a full investigation of detention, interrogation and rendition.
Their continued detention was unlawful, the judge said. Times, Sunday Times
Two Burnley youths who ambushed two men in a motorway under-pass have been sentenced to two years detention.
The spokesman said that the scheme was a practical and cost-effective solution to getting prisoners out of UK detention and out of the country. Times, Sunday Times
Judges dismissed their argument that their detention within the kettle in freezing temperatures without food or water for over six hours had breached their human rights.
Yet despite this well-known pattern of exploitation, the company announced in January that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had awarded it a 5-year $385 million contract to build immigrant "detention facilities" (prisons) for immigrants arrested on charges of entering the country illegally and to provide construction and logistics support services in the event of an "immigration emergency," a term vague enough to cause activists to suspect the worst -- that they are openly planning to build detention camps for political dissidents. Charlie Cray: Prison Camps: BushCo's Big Growth Industry?
And finally, let's stop to consider exactly which law would be broken in an escape from detention.
The pair were released under home detention curfews and will have to wear electronic tags. Times, Sunday Times
Read in studio Campaigners against a new detention centre for the immigration service have held a torchlight protest.
In the end, the detentions didn't wind up being the worst punishment.
In Korematsu, the Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of forcible evacuation; however, on the very same day, in Endo, the Court held indefinite detention to be illegal. Is That Legal?: Japanese American internment Archives
Louise Arbour, the high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, presented the most forceful criticism to date of U. S. detention policies by a senior U.
He pledged throughout his presidential campaign to close the detention facility. Times, Sunday Times
Current legislation provides for the detention of those suspected of terrorism.
Arizona’s legislation fits right in with existing federal programs and proposals: Secure Communities and the Criminal Alien Program (CAP), two efforts that empower state and local police to identify, arrest and detain suspected undocumented immigrants; ongoing detention and dataveillance programs; and Sen. Schumer’s comprehensive immigration reform REPAIR proposal, which focuses on immigration control to the near exclusion of legalization. Immigration's strain on democracy
Asylum seekers also face being electronically tagged to ease the pressure on detention centres.
At the time, I would rather have had a detention; didn't really enjoy being the school swot.
Surely measures short of detention should be tried first and detention should be regarded as the last resort.
What its proposal, emailed to reporters a couple minutes ago, actually concerns is empaneling an investigation into abuses which may have been committed by U.S. officials or agents in connection with the U.S. response to the events of September 11, 2001, or in relation to alleged acts or threats against national security, and which at a minimum will investigate detentions, renditions and the alleged use of torture and other mistreatment of detainees. 13-Point Program To Destroy America | ATTACKERMAN
Print US urges China to stop lawyer and activist abductions The United States government has called on China to stop what it calls the "extralegal" abductions and detentions of lawyers and human rights activists. BBC News - Home
Failure to register, or to give prior notification of each shipment, will result in detention of shipments and could also result in the debarment of the individual or business from making future shipments to the USA.
Anyway, indefinite detention without any review is worse than just killing: To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must once convey the alarm of tyranny thoroughout the whole kingdom. The Volokh Conspiracy » Defamation by Government Still Political Question
I stayed behind after classes were over for the day and peeked into the detention room.
The pair are being held in an immigration detention centre. Times, Sunday Times
His detention turns out to be much more unorthodox than writing a hundred lines.
The correct sentence would have been nine months' detention in a young offender institution, and that sentence would be substituted.
Some of those sentenced to home detention would have been serving short periods of imprisonment for less serious offences.
Now, thanks to a slavishly Bush-poodling Labour government with a startlingly authoritarian bent, Britons are beginning to recognize that this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden is about to become this surveillance state, this database depot, this green and pleasant centre of preventive detention, this precious home of biometrically-keyed national identification cards set in a sea of CCTV cameras. Jamie Malanowski: Bringing Freedom to Great Britain
Some 15 activists remain in pre-trial detention and four are under house arrest. Times, Sunday Times
A senior U.S. military official in Afghanistan called Kabir a "significant detention. FOXNews.com
The commission will also be able to arrange for an independent review by a Mental Health Tribunal of all decisions to detain patients on an involuntary basis and each decision to extend the duration of such detentions.
My son is locked up at the juvenile detention center this morning. Christianity Today
They too had been forcibly removed to ‘detention’ centres in mostly remote areas.
The prisoners are protesting against conditions at the camp and the indefinite nature of their detention. Times, Sunday Times
Nine Law Lords ruled on Thursday morning that their indefinite detention breached human rights but the government has refused to release the prisoners while it considers its position.
This These include projects on human dignity, prevention of violence, detention, migration, statelessness , the right to health, climate change, and a the creation of a world court of human rights.
The internal report will provide valuable ammunition for the Hamiltons who have said they intend to sue Scotland Yard for unlawful arrest and detention.
The Law Lords ruling stated that indefinite detention without trial of foreign nationals was discriminatory, because it applied only to foreigners and not to British nationals.
They say that detention is creating a spiral of depression, psychotic symptoms and self-mutilation.
She has in my view made up a story of arrest and detention between May and September 1999.
Meanwhile, their continued detention of these two young men, in isolation, in a cramped cell, and without affording them even the process they are due under Iranian law, further corrodes their image around the world. Christian Parenti: Call to Help the Hikers
Their detention, removal and exclusion from the territory are inconsistent with any or all of those words.
At each periodic review of his detention it was concluded that he remained a threat and that it was still necessary to intern him. Times, Sunday Times
JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Well, Wolf, the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the secretary of homeland security, saying that -- that -- over what it calls unlawful searches and detentions at airports. CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2009
Detained Numbers of refugees seeking asylum in the United Kingdom are held in detention for long periods following their arrival.
There was another riot at the men's detention center yesterday.
Some of these Filipino "deportees" including women and children are suffering from inhuman conditions inside detention centers. The Ugly Side of Malaysia
The fact that the Act and the orders are silent on detention does not of course mean that any power to detain is lacking. IsThatLegal?
So it is heartening to see how the movement against detention is growing. Times, Sunday Times
A peculiar feature of neocapitalism in America is the presence of large groups which are excluded from production and which, because they are economically superfluous, must be kept in places of detention. The Education and the University We Need Now
In Easter sermons, several Christian bishops made a point of criticising the detention of children.
The detention raised two distinct but closely linked questions.
TAGUBA: Sir, there's a baseline that we use as a reference, which is Army regulation 190-8, which is a multiservice regulation, establishes the policy in executive agency for detention operations. CNN Transcript May 11, 2004
It's one thing if they're concerned your new dude is a real dud (he holds the running record for most days in detention) or a total heartbreaker (he's dumped his last six GFs like a bad habit).
TODD: U.S. special operations command tells us the training techniques for captivity have been updated since 9/11, much of it now focusing on what one official called nongovernmental detention. CNN Transcript May 14, 2007
The petition referred to eyewitnesses reporting his later detention, harsh interrogation and cruel torture.
The suspect remains in detention in Kandahar. Times, Sunday Times
There is a paragraph in the appellant's submissions that refers to the unacceptability of simply allowing a person to languish in detention.
I'm unshaven, hungover and on a bus heading to a detention centre.
Current legislation provides for the detention of those suspected of terrorism.
I have accepted that the appellant was detained and assaulted whilst in detention.
In reality, a superintendent or above may authorize detention for up to thirty-six hours.
She had not been deprived of her right of access to a court or tribunal to review her detention. Times, Sunday Times
Lengthy pretrial detention, judicial susceptibility to political pressure and corruption, and long delays before trial remain problems.
The order does not define "expeditiously" and the definitional section of the order says that the terms 'detention facilities' and 'detention facility'"do not refer to facilities used only to hold people on a short-term, transitory basis. A Call to End All Renditions
Unchecked erosion also fills riprap channels with silt and reduces the storage capacity of detention ponds via sediment deposits.

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