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Detention in sentence

208 examples of Detention in a sentence

I don't design detention centers, and I don't even design courthouses.
In Thailand people who use drugs, or are merely suspected of using drugs, are placed in detention centers, like the one you see here, where they are supposed to clean up.
There is absolutely no evidence to show that throwing people into detention cures their drug dependence.
Arrested again, he was sent to detention for one day, and I was sent to jail.
Here, the Stasi also developed quite modern methods of detention.
Soon, her cousin came home from a juvenile detention center.
The interception of the boats and the disappearance of the people into the detention system are veiled by the Australian authorities.
On the floor, a stylized compass gave the direction to each immigration detention center, accompanied by the distance and the name of the immigration facility.
Visitors were offered the opportunity to talk directly to a refugee who was or had been imprisoned in a specific detention facility and engage in a personal conversation.
Visitors immersed themselves in long conversations about families torn apart, about dramatic escapes from war zones, about suicide attempts, about the fate of children in detention.
We've gone to immigration detention centers.
And we've seen that redemption and transformation can happen in our prisons, our jails and our immigration detention centers, giving hope to those who want to create a better life after serving their time.
As a new parent, I tell you, I am troubled by devastating images of young children being ripped out of the arms of their parents at the US border and being placed in private detention facilities that did too little to help the kids maintain contact with their parents.
This wasn't what I was wearing the day of the detention, to be fair, but I have a picture of that as well.
And the detention dragged on like this.
This means San Francisco is spending something like 80 million dollars every year to fund pretrial detention.
Now, back to my detention.
After about three months of detention, the North Korean court sentenced me to 12 years in a labor camp.
Guard B stopped by my room to say goodbye, because she was leaving the detention center.
Many of them are 17 to 18 years old, experimenting with drugs, in and out of the juvenile detention system and expelled from school.
The amount of support we provide to countries in Central America that are sending refugees and migrants is a tiny fraction of the amount we spend on enforcement and detention.
I photographed the massive and historic immigration marches in Chicago, children at detention facilities and the slow percolating rise of anti-immigrant hate groups, including sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona.
I documented the children in detention facilities, deportation flights and a lot of different things.
This was one of several makeshift detention centers at former fairgrounds and racetracks, where entire families were packed into poorly converted stables and barracks.
A landmark Supreme Court case ruled that continued detention of American citizens without charges was unconstitutional.
But I didn't know what happened to Anna until over a week later, when she turned up at a detention camp a few miles east.
I used to be fun at parties, but now, I inevitably find myself telling people about how our government tortures refugees at the border and in the detention camps.
The US is also using detention to try to deter refugees and make it harder for them to win their cases.
Today, there are over 55,000 immigrants detained in the United States, many in remote detention facilities, far from any type of legal help.
Because it's civil and not criminal detention, there is no public defender system, so most detained immigrants are not going to have an attorney to help them with their cases.
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