detention center
Example Sentences
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She was placed in a van with other detainees and driven three hours north to the detention center in California City.
From Los Angeles Times
Maduro was booked in New York and flown by night over the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he is in federal custody at a notorious facility that has housed other famous inmates, including Sean “Diddy” Combs, Ghislaine Maxwell, Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried.
From Los Angeles Times
Soon after, ICE agents arrived and took Jose Alvaro to a detention center.
From Salon
Gonzalez is still able to participate in the case but is now doing it from an ICE detention center.
From Salon
He was calling from San Bernardino County, where he’d been held in an immigration detention center for months.
From Los Angeles Times
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