detention center

Example Sentences

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After we were taken to the Dilley detention center, my husband was held in a separate area from my daughter and me.

From Slate

Putting a 5-year-old in a detention center generates images that no public-relations expert can spin away.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Walmart sign has bad plastic wrapping around it that reads “Southwest Key Detention Center.”

From Slate

That’s a teen detention center.

From Slate

Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro, a Democrat, announced on Sunday that Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias were released from Dilley detention center in Texas and had travelled back to the Minneapolis.

From BBC