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detention home

noun as in house of correction

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Early the next morning Jack Woodvale parked the helicopter in a lot back of the city youth detention home.

"She makes me feel like an inmate of a detention home or some place where the criminally insane are sent," stormed Dee.

Once, he was held in the detention-home and once sent to the State Industrial school; at other times, he was placed on probation.

Bennie's mother was accused of being unfit to care for her boy, and Bennie was temporarily installed in the Detention Home.

That would be better than having him at the Detention Home with Mrs. Hollis.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to detention home, such as: borstal, detention center, house of detention, reformatory, and reform school.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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