How to Use detention center in a Sentence

detention center

noun

• She was sent back to the detention center the same day.
  — Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2024
• Where the rest of the detention center is sparse, his office is stuffed.
  — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• Coyer had been in the detention center since May 24 of last year.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 15 Feb. 2023
• The detention center is about 160 miles from Louisville.
  — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2023
• According to the chief deputy, the 10-year-old has been sentenced to two years at a youth detention center.
  — Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
• There is a lot on the line for the county detention center and its employees.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Damari spent 21 days locked up in a juvenile detention center and was kicked out of school.
  — Sammy Caiola, NPR, 4 June 2024
• It was built in a way that nobody would build a detention center today.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2024
• The post is correct that Biden campaigned in 2020 on a promise to shut down the detention center, which has not happened.
  — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• The teen is being held at a youth detention center, police said.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 26 Feb. 2023
• Maia was not allowed to stay with her at the detention center, Rodriguez said.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Zephyr left the Capitol to follow the protesters taken to the detention center.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• Mack would get into trouble just so the police would take him to a local youth detention center.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
• Rodriguez had to stay overnight in an airport detention center, where her dog was not allowed.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 28 Aug. 2023
• The inmates made their way out of the detention center through a damaged window and a cut fence, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement at the time of the escape.
  — Mike Gagliardi, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
• Police say Forton and the woman knew each other outside of his work at the detention center.
  — Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
• Fournier was being held in the Bibb County detention center on a murder charge, police said.
  — Mike Gagliardi, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
• While waiting for those court proceedings, many minors are stuck, locked up in the detention center for months.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
• The issues come amid the absence of a youth detention center in Kentucky's largest city, causing some children to be detained hours away from home.
  — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2024
• The student who allegedly made the threat was found off campus with a weapon and taken to the juvenile detention center.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
• His son, Trevor Reed, was held in the same Russian detention center where Barnes is currently being held.
  — Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• While mentoring a juvenile in a detention center who was facing a 25- to 50-year prison sentence, a loud bang echoed from across the room.
  — Marcus Lilly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2024
• Two jail record clerks have been fired since it was discovered Mason was allowed the leave the detention center, Martin said.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
• Soon, Griner was moved to a women’s detention center about two hours outside Moscow.
  — J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• Siebert pleaded guilty first, and was sentenced to three years in a juvenile detention center plus seven more years in state prison.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 21 May 2024
• Eleven are being held in the county’s juvenile detention center, and the 12th, a 12-year-old girl, was put on a home detention program.
  — cleveland, 27 July 2023
• The background, which shows turquoise and purple walls and ornate trim, resembles a bedroom more than a detention center.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
• The cast is composed of seven total participants who will enter the detention center to try and spend 60 days inside the jail.
  — oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2023
• All nine of the teens were captured within about four miles of the detention center and none actively resisted arrest, Beohm said.
  — Celina Tebor, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• Two men were taken to the Fort Worth City Jail and a juvenile male was transported to a juvenile detention center.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024