detainees
People in custody
Detainees are people held in custody, typically by a government or authority, often without formal charges or trial.
The term appears frequently in contexts involving immigration, military operations, and political situations where individuals are confined pending some determination of their status or fate.
The detainees were held at the facility for months awaiting their hearings.
Unlike prisoners, who have usually been convicted of crimes, detainees occupy a more ambiguous legal position.
Political objectors
- activistsPeople working for causes
- journalistsNews gatherers and writers
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- renditionPerformed version of work
Guantanamo · Uyghurs · internees · wartime · POWs · hostages · extradition · regime
People seeking safety elsewhere
- undocumentedNot officially recorded
- migrantsPeople who move elsewhere
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- removalAct of taking away
ICE · smuggling · trafficking · repatriation · sanctuary · stateless · enforcement
Cruel or violent treatment
- mistreatmentCruel or harmful behavior
- conditionsPrevailing state of affairs
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- monitoringOngoing observation of something
UNHCR · visitation · torture · interrogation · solitary · oversight · accountability · complaint
Bonded element substances
- cellsBasic biological units
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
- isolationComplete separation from others
- segregationForced separation by group
quarantine · lockup · restraint · shackles · handcuffs · overcrowding · dormitories · cage
Perceiving sound waves
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
- bailCourt-set release payment
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- appealFormal review request
jurisdiction · warrant · indictment · prosecution · defense · attorney · representation · testimony
dissidents
Political objectors
- activistsPeople working for causes
- journalistsNews gatherers and writers
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
rendition · Guantanamo · Uyghurs · internees · wartime · POWs · hostages · extradition · regime · crackdown
refugees
People seeking safety elsewhere
- undocumentedNot officially recorded
- migrantsPeople who move elsewhere
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
removal · ICE · smuggling · trafficking · repatriation · sanctuary · stateless · enforcement
abuse
Cruel or violent treatment
- mistreatmentCruel or harmful behavior
- conditionsPrevailing state of affairs
- advocacyPleading for a cause
monitoring · UNHCR · visitation · torture · interrogation · solitary · oversight · accountability · complaint · dignity
compounds
Bonded element substances
- cellsBasic biological units
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
- isolationComplete separation from others
segregation · quarantine · lockup · restraint · shackles · handcuffs · overcrowding · dormitories · cage · fencing
hearing
Perceiving sound waves
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
- bailCourt-set release payment
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
appeal · jurisdiction · warrant · indictment · prosecution · defense · attorney · representation · testimony · plea
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- Japanese Internmentinternment camps, internment camp, Japanese internment, Executive Order 9066, internees
- prisonersprisoners, inmates, convicts, felons, jailbirds
- War on TerrorOsama bin Laden, IED, Guantanamo, regime change, troop surge
- Gitmomilitary prison, enemy combatants, interrogation, waterboarding, hunger strikes
- prison campsconcentration camp, prison camps, labor camp, gulags, internment camp
detaineescaptors
Those holding prisoners
jailers · guards · wardens · custodians · interrogators
- political detaineesThose imprisoned for ideology
- unlawful detainerPossession without legal authority
- ghost detaineesUnacknowledged, secretly held captives