detention center

Example Sentences

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After serving six months in Maryland’s Montgomery County Detention Center, she was released in September.

From Los Angeles Times

The words of Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker rejecting an ICE detention center in his state‍—‍“While I support the enforcement of immigration law, I write to express my opposition to this acquisition and the proposed detention center”—are beginning to read like a form letter.

From Slate

In his Feb. 4 letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Wicker laid out his case against a proposed ICE detention center in Byhalia, Mississippi.

From Slate

Wicker argued that the location was “positioned for economic development purposes” and that “converting this industrial asset into an ICE detention center forecloses economic growth opportunities and replaces them with a use that does not generate comparable economic returns or community benefits.”

From Slate

He was taken to a detention center where he was provided no attorney, phone call or hearing before a judge.

From Salon