detention centers
Immigration confinement buildings
Detention centers are facilities where people are held in custody, typically by government authority.
The term most often refers to places housing immigrants awaiting deportation hearings or asylum decisions, distinct from prisons for convicted criminals.
Detention centers also hold juveniles accused of crimes: The judge sent him to a juvenile detention center.
The term can sound clinical, sometimes masking harsh conditions.
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- jailDetention facility
- border patrolBoundary enforcement agency
- penitentiaryFacility for convicted criminals
- holding cellTemporary detention room
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- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, crime
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- Philippine historypresidents, Spanish rule, vice president, revolutionaries, Imelda
- Chinese AmericaChinese Exclusion Act, Chinatown, Chinatowns, transcontinental railroad, railroad workers
- detentionjail, captive, prison, captivity, detainee
detention centersfreedom
Absence of constraint
open borders · liberty · free movement · release · public spaces
detention centerssanctuary cities
Municipalities limiting immigration enforcement cooperation
reception centers · safe havens · refugee shelters · community centers · shelters
detention centerscitizenship
Status as state member
permanent residency · legal status · naturalization · amnesty · asylum