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holding cell

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Noun1.holding cellholding cell - a jail in a courthouse where accused persons can be confined during a trial
gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer, clink - a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)


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m Tuesday when a third officer heard what was described as a disturbance coming from the juvenile holding cell, police said.
OFFICER ARRESTED IN ASSAULT ON RESTRAINED TEEN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The female detainee was handcuffed to a cross bar outside of a holding cell for over 7 hours, with no place to rest her elbow.
Esmont v. City of New York by Corrections Caselaw Quarterly
On October 26, 2002, Nicholas Monahan, a film industry accountant in Los Angeles, was arrested and detained for an hour in a holding cell at Portland International Airport for protesting the unnecessary molestation of his wife--at the time seven and a half months pregnant with the couple's first child--by a TSA screener.
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