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detention centre
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detention centre
n
(Social Welfare) a place where young persons may be detained for short periods by order of a court
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Noun1.detention centre - a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
detention cell, bullpen
jail cell, prison cell, cell - a room where a prisoner is kept
Translations
detention centre, (US) detention center
n → Jugendstrafanstalt f


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Plans match inmates to housing that reflects their crimes and also reshuffles many who were moved to other detention centers following race riots in February at Pitchess that left one man dead and more than 100 injured.
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Many teens are being housed in similar detention centers across the country.
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To identify the primary HIV-1 strains in the current epidemic, we collected blood specimens from HIV-1-infected inmates in 3 detention centers (1 each located in the northern, central and southern regions of Taiwan).
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