Look up detention in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Detention may refer to: Detention (imprisonment), imprisonment of someone guilty or suspected of...

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A detention center, or detention centre, is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean: A jail or...

Pre-trial detention, also known as jail, preventive detention, provisional detention, or remand, is the process of detaining a person until their trial...

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/...

A detention basin or retarding basin is an excavated area installed on, or adjacent to, tributaries of rivers, streams, lakes or bays to protect against...

Preventive detention is an imprisonment that is putatively justified for non-punitive purposes, most often to prevent further criminal acts. Preventive...

Periodic detention or weekend detention is a type of custodial sentence under which the offender is held in prison between Friday and Sunday evenings each...

Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial. A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security...

The Tombs was the colloquial name for Manhattan Detention Complex (formerly the Bernard B. Kerik Complex during 2001–2006), a former municipal jail at...

Otay Mesa Detention Center is a minimum/medium security federal prison for men, managed by CoreCivic under contract with the United States Marshals Service...

The Toronto East Detention Centre, often simply referred to as The East, is a remand facility located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 55...

completion of chores). Detention can be supervised by the teacher setting the detention or through a centralised detention system. Detention may require a student...

The Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn (MDC Brooklyn) is a United States federal administrative detention facility in the Sunset Park neighborhood...

Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival, as well as those subject...

criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, or more...

The Tokyo Detention House (東京拘置所, Tōkyō Kōchisho) is a correctional facility in Katsushika, Tokyo. The prison, which is operated by the Ministry of Justice...

law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian...

The Brooklyn Detention Complex (originally the Brooklyn House of Detention) was a jail facility located at 275 Atlantic Avenue, in Brooklyn. At full capacity...

A Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) is a United States Federal government detention facility (prison) operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. There...

Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing their freedom or liberty at that time. This can be due...

government is in the process of building several detention camps throughout India. One of the first detention centres had come up in Assam during the tenure...

Detention (Chinese: 返校; pinyin: Fǎnxiào) is a Taiwanese supernatural horror drama television series, created for Netflix in collaboration with Public...

A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, and slammer,...

The Detention Falls, a cascade waterfall on the Detention River, is located at Milabena in North West Tasmania, Australia. The falls are situated about...

Indefinite detention is the incarceration of an arrested person by a national government or law enforcement agency for an indefinite amount of time without...

border with the Gaza Strip. During the Israel–Hamas war, its use as a detention camp doubled and gained international attention for its systemic human...

A Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) is a United States Federal government detention facility. Metropolitan Detention Center may also refer to: Metropolitan...

transnational crime, where as ERO is responsible for the apprehension, detention and removal of undocumented immigrants. The Acting Director is Patrick...

The Al-Moskobiya, Moscobiyeh, Muscovite or Moscovia Detention Centre is an Israeli detention and interrogation facility and prison in the Russian Compound...

(old) Prison, also known as the Clerkenwell House of Detention or Middlesex House of Detention was a prison in Clerkenwell, London, opened in 1847 and...