detentions
After-class penalty sessions
Detentions are instances of being held or kept somewhere, usually against one's will.
The word most often refers to a school punishment where students must stay after hours: She got detention for talking back to the teacher.
In legal contexts, detention means being held by authorities: immigrant detentions at the border, pretrial detention.
The plural emphasizes multiple instances or a pattern of holding people.
Protective care or control
- arrestSeize by law
- jailDetention facility
- holdingMaintaining physical possession
- confinementState of being restricted
incarceration · imprisonment · remand · lockup · booking · arraignment · bail · pretrial
Penalty for an offense
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- afterschoolFollowing final bell
- principalChief school administrator
- misconductImproper professional behavior
suspension · behavior · teacher · classroom · hallway · writing lines · tardy · truancy
Incarcerated individuals
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- arbitraryBased on personal whim
- extrajudicialOutside court authority
- regimeSystem of governance
activists · journalists · human rights · interrogation · unlawful · secret · indefinite · torture
Hostile military opponent
- POWCaptured military personnel
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
- internmentWartime civilian imprisonment
- Geneva ConventionWartime humanitarian law treaties
interrogation · camp · tribunal · unlawful · Guantanamo · base · intelligence · capture
Legal expulsion from country
- asylumShelter from persecution
- borderOuter edge or limit
- facilitySkill or equipped premises
- centerMiddle of anything
migrant · refugee · camp · undocumented · ICE · processing · indefinite · separation
custody
Protective care or control
confinement · incarceration · imprisonment · remand · lockup · booking · arraignment · bail · pretrial · suspect
punishment
Penalty for an offense
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- afterschoolFollowing final bell
- principalChief school administrator
misconduct · suspension · behavior · teacher · classroom · hallway · writing lines · tardy · truancy · Saturday
prisoners
Incarcerated individuals
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- arbitraryBased on personal whim
- extrajudicialOutside court authority
regime · activists · journalists · human rights · interrogation · unlawful · secret · indefinite · torture · Guantanamo
enemy combatant
Hostile military opponent
- POWCaptured military personnel
- wartimePeriod of armed conflict
- internmentWartime civilian imprisonment
Geneva Convention · interrogation · camp · tribunal · unlawful · Guantanamo · base · intelligence · capture · battlefield
deportation
Legal expulsion from country
center · migrant · refugee · camp · undocumented · ICE · processing · indefinite · separation · holding
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- enforcementenforcement actions, crackdown, fines, enforcement agencies, penalties
detentionsreleases
Lets go or publishes
liberations · freedoms · emancipations · discharges · acquittals
detentionsrewards
Benefits given for merit
commendations · privileges · honors · recognitions · awards
detentionsreleases
Lets go or publishes
aids · expeditions · accelerations · clearances · permissions
- 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