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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In this detention centre , contemptuous and inhuman attitudes have hardened into set rules.
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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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Read in studio A Government plan to turn a disused juvenile prison into a detention centre for immigrants has been strongly criticised.
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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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Read in studio Campaigners against a new detention centre for the immigration service have held a torchlight protest.
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So they put me in a detention centre for six months.
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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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Then again you may be taken from the detention centre to Pentonville Prison and locked up there if you complain.