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单词 detention centre
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Definition of detention centre in English:

detention centre

noun
  • An institution for the short-term detention of illegal immigrants, refugees, people awaiting trial or sentence, or (formerly in the UK) young offenders.

    (尤指对非法移民、难民、候审人员或未决犯进行短期关押的)拘留中心;(英国旧时关押青少年罪犯的)感化中心

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I spoke with him by telephone from a detention centre the day before his second Tribunal hearing.
    • Campaign groups will gather outside Dungavel today to protest about conditions for refugees in the detention centre.
    • In Finland the reason given for the creation of a detention centre has been that immigrants should not be placed in prisons.
    • He therefore authorised the transfer of the prisoner from the detention centre to the young persons prison.
    • Yet another hunger-strike by asylum seekers came to an end at the Woomera detention centre last week.
    • He was picked up at home, taken to the detention centre and is now awaiting expulsion.
    • Dividing the second response by the first revealed the proportion of friends who had been held overnight or longer in jail or a detention center.
    • He needs treatment for his stomach ulcers, which he is currently receiving in his detention centre.
    • During this angry period he committed some crimes as a result of which he was sent to a detention centre and to Borstal.
    • And we get a rare insight into life inside a management unit in a detention centre.
    • More than 200 illegal immigrants from Haiti are now at a detention center today in Florida, awaiting processing.
    • There was also Krome Service Processing Center, an immigration detention center near Miami.
    • But he is in detention at an immigration detention center in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture.
    • Gao began his hunger strike on Feb.19 when he was paroled by the Taipei Prison and transferred to the detention center to await deportation.
    • And these figures do not include their chances of being arrested and booked into jail or a detention center in the case of a juvenile.
    • No provisions were made for these children as their parents were carted 70 miles away to a detention center to await deportation.
    • Now there are new details about a detention center within the detention center.
    • Tokyo's winter felt even colder to me when I was inside the detention center, a huge structure that sits imposingly near the eastern end of the city.
    • A few years ago, the KMT government had planned to remodel the camp as a detention center for young offenders.
    • He is now is serving a two-year sentence in a detention centre in Nanchong, in Sichuan province.
    Synonyms
    prison, penal institution, place of detention, lock-up, place of confinement, guardhouse, correctional facility
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