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detention center

[dih-ten-shuhn sen-ter] / dɪˈtɛn ʃən ˌsɛn tər /


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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

A light amid the worry, however, is the community that her mother has built at the detention center.

From Los Angeles Times