detention center

noun

: a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept for a period of time

: a place where people who have committed crimes are kept as punishment

She spent several months in a detention center for women.

a juvenile detention center

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President Jimmy Carter tried to withdraw U.S. forces from bases in South Korea in 1977, Obama attempted to close the Guantánamo Bay detention center in 2009, and Trump announced that U.S. forces would withdraw from Syria in 2019—but none of these efforts succeeded. —

Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024 The detention center held women and children before the Biden-Harris administration canceled CoreCivic's $150 million contract in June. —

Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024 Boyer started to worry that the detention center might try to keep Junior overnight. —

Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2024 The facility serves as New York City’s primary federal detention center dating back to 2021. —

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