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Detention centre

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Noun
  1. 1
    A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.

    "2002, Russell Hogg, Chapter 1: Prisoners and the Penal Estate in Australia, David Brown, Meredith Wilkie (editors), Prisoners as Citizens: Human Rights in Australian Prisons, page 3, All jurisdictions have their own prison systems, although the Australia Capital Territory (ACT) has only one remand centre and one periodic detention centre."

  2. 2
    a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily wordnet
  3. 3
    An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin. Australia

    "New detention centres were opened, all in remote areas — at Woomera in the South Australian desert in November 1999, and the Curtin Detention Centre at Derby in Western Australia in February 2000."

  4. 4
    A concentration camp.

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