detention
After-school punishment
Detention is the act of holding someone or something back.
In schools, detention is a punishment requiring students to stay after hours: She got detention for talking back to the teacher.
In law, detention means confining someone, often before trial or for immigration violations: The suspect was held in detention pending arraignment.
To detain is the corresponding verb.
Detention facility
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- cellBasic unit of life
- custodyProtective care or control
- holdingMaintaining physical possession
lockup · imprisonment · captivity · confinement · facility · pretrial · remand · arrest
Legal expulsion from country
- borderOuter edge or limit
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- asylumShelter from persecution
- ICEImmigration enforcement bureau
migrant · undocumented · camp · facility · separation · processing · checkpoint · visa
Existing alone, apart
- segregationForced separation by group
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- confinementState of being restricted
- cellBasic unit of life
punishment · lockdown · separation · mental health · sensory deprivation · supermax · hole · box
Educational instruction space
- homeworkStudent assignments for outside class
- teacherOne who instructs others
- principalChief school administrator
- studentsThose receiving instruction
tardy · bell · afterschool · hallway · desk · misconduct · truancy · suspension
Ongoing observation of something
- observationAttentive watching or remark
- watchPortable timekeeping device
- trackingMonitoring location over time
- custodyProtective care or control
supervision · oversight · electronic · ankle monitor · reporting · check-in · curfew · conditions
Confined criminal detainee
- POWCaptured military personnel
- enemy combatantHostile military opponent
- GuantanamoUS base in Cuba
- internmentWartime civilian imprisonment
camp · interrogation · capture · wartime · tribunal · Geneva Convention · rendition · black site
jail
Detention facility
holding · lockup · imprisonment · captivity · confinement · facility · pretrial · remand · arrest · bail
deportation
Legal expulsion from country
ICE · migrant · undocumented · camp · facility · separation · processing · checkpoint · visa · enforcement
solitary
Existing alone, apart
- segregationForced separation by group
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- confinementState of being restricted
cell · punishment · lockdown · separation · mental health · sensory deprivation · supermax · hole · box · administrative
classroom
Educational instruction space
- homeworkStudent assignments for outside class
- teacherOne who instructs others
- principalChief school administrator
students · tardy · bell · afterschool · hallway · desk · misconduct · truancy · suspension · expulsion
monitoring
Ongoing observation of something
- observationAttentive watching or remark
- watchPortable timekeeping device
- trackingMonitoring location over time
custody · supervision · oversight · electronic · ankle monitor · reporting · check-in · curfew · conditions · probation
prisoner
Confined criminal detainee
- POWCaptured military personnel
- enemy combatantHostile military opponent
- GuantanamoUS base in Cuba
internment · camp · interrogation · capture · wartime · tribunal · Geneva Convention · rendition · black site · intelligence
- schoolteachers, classrooms, classes, student, grades
- school lifeschool, teacher, classroom, homework, grades
- school termsfreshman, sophomore, junior, senior, homework
- disciplinary termswarning, suspension, expulsion, fine, probation
- mild punishmentswarning, reprimand, caution, scolding, timeout
- School consequencessuspension, expulsion, grades, honor roll, awards
detentionrelease
To let go
freedom · liberation · liberty · emancipation · discharge
detentionhaste
Excessive quickness
rush · promptness · promptitude · expedition · dispatch
detentionrelease
To let go
relinquishment · letting go · abandonment · discharge · surrender
- detention centrePlace for confining people
- detention centerPlace for confining detainees
- juvenile detentionCustody for young offenders
- after school detentionPunitive supervised delay
- detention campsFacilities for confining groups
- saturday detention