detention
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Since then, he’s been confined to a dank cell at Beihai’s No. 2 Detention Center, cut off from his flock and his family, 8,000 miles away in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
She then was transferred to Pretrial Detention Centre Number 5 in Donetsk, where she shared a small, filthy cell with around 20 common-law prisoners.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Earlier in 2024, the Herald said, Kapri spent two months in the Miami Federal Detention Center after violating probation in the 2019 weapons case in which the sentence was commuted.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
But Carruthers, from Wigton in Cumbria, has now been released under the Home Detention Curfew Scheme, the Ministry of Justice confirmed.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Albertina Sisulu and Caroline Motsoaledi were detained under the Ninety-Day Detention Act, and Walter’s young son Max was also arrested.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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