noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a term of imprisonment/detention
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She was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.
detention centre
preventive detention
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
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There were a further 303 prisoners held under administrative detention , without trial.
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They would instead be placed in administrative detention in the Qeziot detention centre in the Negev.
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Amnesty International opposes the detention without trial of all political detainees, including administrative detention.
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Olivier Nwaha Binya'a appears to be held in indefinite administrative detention without any opportunity to challenge his imprisonment.
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Many are held for months or years in administrative or pretrial detention , usually incommunicado.
arbitrary
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The case also highlights the widespread practice of arbitrary detention that affects about 2 million people each year.
preventive
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Her order of preventive detention caused consternation among lawyers over a possible breach of civil liberties.
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Apart from the clearly implied step toward preventive detention , it was almost impossible not to detect an underlying racism.
■ NOUN
camp
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More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
center
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Police take violators to a special detention center and telephone their homes.
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Women are more likely to end up in county jails because INSrun detention centers sometimes can not handle females.
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The main detention center was designed to hold 150 people, but sometimes houses 600.
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He was in and out of juvenile detention centers for four years on weapons and drug charges and other violations.
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High Commissioner for Refugees visit the detention center twice a week to assess those requests.
centre
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Read in studio A new detention centre for immigrants has taken delivery of its first inmates, despite protests from local people.
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The judge gave Abraham a seven-year sentence in a juvenile detention centre , after which he will be released.
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So they put me in a detention centre for six months.
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Then again you may be taken from the detention centre to Pentonville Prison and locked up there if you complain.
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Read in studio Campaigners against a new detention centre for the immigration service have held a torchlight protest.
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It's planned to turn part of the site into a detention centre for the immigration service.
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Campsfield will house 200 people making it the biggest detention centre for immigrants in the country.
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They want to prevent the opening of a new detention centre at Campsfield House in Kidlington.
centres
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The bodies of 18 had been recovered and 366 had been traced, most of them to detention centres for rebels.
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Brutal conditions have been unearthed in a series of youth detention centres around the country.
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The resolution refers specifically to detention centres and humanitarian aid.
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Under these provisions local authorities are expected to provide Intermediate Treatment, which is designed to replace attendance and detention centres .
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It was confirmed last night that the idea of privately-run detention centres was being pursued within the Home Office.
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During 1975 and 1976 the detention centres would often get crowded.
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Reporters have not been allowed access to Chi Ma Wan or any of the other detention centres .
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Her requests to inspect several detention centres where troops were alleged to have tortured prisoners were also ignored.
officer
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Normally, Campbell said, two detention officers oversee such transfers.
■ VERB
hold
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Up to 1,000 asylum seekers were being held in detention at any one time, the report said.
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Olivier Nwaha Binya'a appears to be held in indefinite administrative detention without any opportunity to challenge his imprisonment.
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Detained Numbers of refugees seeking asylum in the United Kingdom are held in detention for long periods following their arrival.
put
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So they put me in a detention centre for six months.
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They put the detention basin in the golf course.
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When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women.
release
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An estimated 200 people were to be released from detention immediately.
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He appealed against the verdict, and on July 16 was released from detention pending his appeal.
remain
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At least one political detainee, Corporal Thomas Benefo, remains in detention without charge or trial.
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Medina remains in federal detention in New York, while his attorney tries to arrange his bond.
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Most remain in detention without charge or trial.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
prison/labour/detention etc camp
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A forced labour camp , they call it.
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All the Luftwaffe crews who've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps .
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Even so there remain causes for concern in the Labour camp .
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I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp .
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More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
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Of these, 55,000 were to be punished either by receiving prison sentences or by being sent to labour camps .
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The men were unloaded in the reception area at Long Kesh Detention Camp and placed in cubicles.
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Then he was chosen, with another senior officer, to run the Athi River Detention Camp .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A dissident, recently released from detention , gave a press conference in the capital today.
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About a dozen people remain in detention without trial.
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By the 1920s the average period of detention for new immigrants lasted two weeks.
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Cases of detention without trial were common in the last century.
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He was in and out of juvenile detention for drugs charges as a teenager.
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Marik, who had been held in detention for over a year, was eventually found not guilty.
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Mrs Davis was released from detention yesterday and all charges have been dropped.
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Ormerod, age 19, was sentenced to nine months' detention for possessing and supplying cannabis.
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Sanchez has been released without charge after five days' detention .
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There was another riot at the men's detention center yesterday.
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They were taken into detention two weeks ago and still are not allowed visitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Apart from the clearly implied step toward preventive detention , it was almost impossible not to detect an underlying racism.
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Both psychiatrists said the patient did not satisfy the conditions necessary for continued detention under the Mental Health Act.
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Further detention can only be authorised in the case of a person who is suspected of having committed a serious arrestable offence.
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His detention has provoked the anger of his supporters, who include the radical state senator Tom Hayden.
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Lines scoured on flesh in the penal settlement, or detention beyond the Styx.
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Many of those refused asylum had faced arrest, detention and torture upon their return to Sri Lanka, according to the report.
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When they were rowdy and rude, I kept whole classes for detention .