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A detention center, or detention centre, is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean: A jail or prison, a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as a form of punishment after being convicted of crimes; A structure for immigration detention; An ...
The detention of suspects is the process of keeping a person who has been arrested in a police-cell, remand prison or other detention centre before trial or sentencing. The length of detention of suspected terrorists , with the justification of taking an action that would aid counter-terrorism , varies according to country or situation, as well ...
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One major area of legal concern is the emergency detention of the non-criminal mentally ill in jails while waiting for formal procedures for involuntary hospitalization. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have laws specifically addressing this practice; eight of these states and D.C. explicitly forbid it. Seventeen states, on the ...
A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, and slammer, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.
This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...
Detention (imprisonment), imprisonment of someone guilty or suspected of a crime; Detention basin, an artificial flow control structure that is used to contain flood water for a limited period of time; Immigration detention, imprisonment of an unauthorised person entering a country; Preventive detention, detention intended to prevent criminal acts
A Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) is a United States Federal government detention facility operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. There are MDCs throughout the United States. An MDC, unlike a Federal Penitentiary, is designed to hold prisoners who have not yet been arraigned, have been denied bail, or are awaiting trial. MDCs also hold ...