detention orders
Legal holding mandates
Detention orders are legal directives authorizing the holding of a person in custody.
Governments issue them in immigration cases to detain individuals awaiting deportation or asylum hearings, in mental health contexts for involuntary psychiatric commitment, or during national emergencies for security reasons.
The court reviewed the detention order for the asylum seeker.
The term often appears in debates about civil liberties and due process.
- locked upConfined or secured
- holding cellTemporary detention room
- police departmentOfficial law enforcement body
- family separationKin kept apart
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
judiciary · due process · parole board · legal custody · administrative law · arrest · psychological effects · asylum seekers · bail conditions · national security · appeals process · correctional facility · constitutional law · presumption of innocence · legal precedent · criminal procedure · release conditions · flight risk
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Documents granting official freedom
freedom papers · habeas corpus · acquittal · conditional release · pardon
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Authorization documents for journeys
exit visas · freedom of movement · liberty · laissez-passer · free passage
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