detention facilities
Places confining people
Detention facilities are places where people are held in custody, typically by government authority.
The term encompasses jails, prisons, and immigration centers, but often appears in contexts where "prison" or "jail" would sound too harsh: The migrants were transported to a detention facility near the border.
The bureaucratic phrasing can sanitize conditions or obscure the involuntary nature of confinement.
- brigShipboard detention quarters
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- behind barsIn jail
- locked upConfined or secured
- reform schoolInstitution for young offenders
juvenile hall · jail · internment camp · work camp · penitentiary · maximum security · solitary confinement · stockade · halfway house · holding cell · remand center · boot camp · quarantine station · refugee camp · Guantanamo · migrant camp · lockup · guardhouse
- tribal jurisdictiontribal courts, tribal law, tribal police, federal jurisdiction, state jurisdiction
- tribal justicetribal courts, indigenous law, tribal justice, tribal law, elder councils
detention facilitiesfreedom
Absence of constraint
release · liberty · open society · free movement · emancipation
detention facilitiesrehabilitation centers
Institutions for recovery programs
reception centers · community centers · shelters · halfway houses · support services
detention facilitiesdischarge
Release of substance outward
liberation · emancipation · parole · acquittal · exoneration
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