detainee
Example Sentences
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Ryan Wood, who formerly served as an ICE prosecutor and an assistant chief immigration judge overseeing deportation cases, said the pace of detentions and failure to maintain information about detainees’ locations are unprecedented.
A seventh detainee who was refusing food every other day due to an underlying health condition has also ended his protest.
From BBC
The Foro Penal legal rights NGO, which defends many of the detainees, gave a much smaller tally of around 180 freed.
From Barron's
Star Comes Out said the detainees are “citizens of the United States by statute and citizens of the Oglala Sioux Nation by treaty.”
From Salon
Despite the Venezuelan government’s pledge to release “an important number” of detainees, just 49 had been released as of Monday, according to legal aid group Foro Penal.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
