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• The laws and the science on how to treat children in detention have changed a bit since then.
  — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• Herrick said the teen was ordered to stay in detention.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
• Moscow denies that Cherkasov, now in detention in Brazil, is a spy.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
• One of the activists targeted in that frame job died in detention.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• This reflected the fact that one person in detention chose to leave Britain.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• But as the days have progressed with Bazoum still in detention, hopes of a reversal are starting to fade.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Some young people waiting for a spot to open up in the program have waited in detention for months.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2022
• As someone who spent a lot of their school years in detention, Louis has never been one to follow rules.
  — Monique Wilson, Glamour, 6 July 2023
• Maley ordered that the teen charged with rape be held in detention while the case progresses.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 May 2023
• One of Hani's cousins was released after a couple of hours in detention.
  — ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• In the absence of a free press, news spread by word of mouth: thousands of people were tortured, or left to die, in detention centers.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• The rest were in detention, but there were presumably others out there.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The court ordered the soldiers to remain in detention until a hearing next month.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2022
• The call marks the second time Blinken has spoken to Whelan during his nearly five years in detention.
  — Shannon Crawford, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Most of the defendants had already spent at least the last three years in detention before the 118-day trial ended.
  — Tiffany May, New York Times, 30 May 2024
• Abd el-Fattah, a prominent blogger and activist who has been in detention for much of the last decade, has been on hunger strike since April 2.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2022
• People in prisons, in detention, are forced to work in inhumane conditions for no pay for the profit of the state.
  — Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• Some of the Guantánamo detainees seemed to him to have landed in detention through a mix of bad luck and bad information.
  — Tamara Audi, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• At the end of season one, we were introduced to Shan Barnes, a Constance student Zoya befriends in detention.
  — Tyler McCall, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2022
• He was released from house arrest last year after months in detention.
  — Amar Nadhir, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• For instance, guards would watch to see whether prisoners would eat the chicken they were given for dinner on their first night in detention.
  — Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2017
• In recent weeks, several countries and the United Nations have raised concerns about the health of the former leader, who faces years in detention.
  — Akanksha Sharma, CNN, 14 Sep. 2023
• As of earlier this month, 35 youths were in detention, a county official there said.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2022
• They were met with a bloody crackdown that saw civilians shot in the street, abducted in nighttime raids and allegedly tortured in detention.
  — Sandi Sidhu, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
• Clark was extradited to the US from Thailand almost five years ago and, before that, had served almost three years in detention in Thailand.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 11 July 2023
• The family plans to sue the Syrian government for damages and to seek justice for others still in detention.
  — Katie Benner, New York Times, 18 May 2024
• After two weeks in detention, Adamu was freed and reunited with his family.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
• After five days in detention, he was transferred to the migrant resource center in San Antonio.
  — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2022
• Most of them now languish in the UK immigration system, housed in detention centers or hotels.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
• After spending three nights in detention, Khankan was told that he could either be sent back to Syria or spend six months confined to a refugee camp whilst his processing was completed.
  — Rory Fleming, CNN, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024