detention center
Immigration confinement building
A detention center is a facility where people are held in custody, typically by government authorities.
The term most often refers to places holding immigrants awaiting deportation proceedings or asylum decisions, though it also applies to juvenile facilities and other short-term holding sites.
Critics note that "detention center" often softens what might otherwise be called a jail or prison: The migrants were transferred to a detention center near the border.
Incarcerated individuals
- custodyProtective care or control
- holdingMaintaining physical possession
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- cellsBasic biological units
isolation · solitary · lockup · captivity · internment · remand · locked doors · restricted movement
Charge-reading court session
- bailCourt-set release payment
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- asylumShelter from persecution
immigration judge · legal aid · due process · appeal · bond · case review · representation · documentation
Protectors or watchmen
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- camerasVisual recording devices
- checkpointsInspection stations along routes
- perimeter fenceBarrier enclosing an area's edges
barbed wire · lockdown · pat-downs · headcounts · monitoring · watchtower · access control · contraband
Combined into one
- barracksSoldiers' residential building
- dormitoryStudent living building
- quartersAssigned living accommodations
- housingDwellings or protective covering
cafeteria · yard · visitation room · recreation area · bunks · fencing · perimeter · administration building
Professional guidance for problems
- educationSystematic development of mind
- vocational trainingJob-skill education
- reintegrationRestoration to a group
- support groupsGatherings for shared struggles
behavioral therapy · mentoring · social work · restorative justice · case management · substance abuse program · job readiness · family reunification
inmates
Incarcerated individuals
- custodyProtective care or control
- holdingMaintaining physical possession
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
cells · isolation · solitary · lockup · captivity · internment · remand · locked doors · restricted movement · confinement
arraignment
Charge-reading court session
- bailCourt-set release payment
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
asylum · immigration judge · legal aid · due process · appeal · bond · case review · representation · documentation · status
guards
Protectors or watchmen
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- camerasVisual recording devices
- checkpointsInspection stations along routes
perimeter fence · barbed wire · lockdown · pat-downs · headcounts · monitoring · watchtower · access control · contraband · searches
compound
Combined into one
- barracksSoldiers' residential building
- dormitoryStudent living building
- quartersAssigned living accommodations
housing · cafeteria · yard · visitation room · recreation area · bunks · fencing · perimeter · administration building · capacity
counseling
Professional guidance for problems
- educationSystematic development of mind
- vocational trainingJob-skill education
- reintegrationRestoration to a group
support groups · behavioral therapy · mentoring · social work · restorative justice · case management · substance abuse program · job readiness · family reunification · mental health services
- juvenile justicejuvenile court, juvenile hall, juvenile courts, youth court, juvenile delinquency
- Gitmomilitary prison, enemy combatants, interrogation, waterboarding, hunger strikes
- juvenile detentionjuvenile hall, juvenile facility, juvie, reform school, juvenile offender
- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
- imprisonmentprison, jail, prisoners, cells, captivity
- institutionsacademy, government, public hospitals, museum, public libraries
detention centerfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · open society · free world · sanctuary · release
detention centerwelcome center
Facility greeting arriving guests
safe haven · sanctuary · sanctuary city · reception center · asylum
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