holding facility
Place for detainees
A holding facility is a place where people or things are kept temporarily before being moved elsewhere or processed.
The term often refers to detention centers for migrants, suspects awaiting trial, or prisoners in transit: Detainees were transferred to a federal holding facility.
It can also describe temporary storage for goods or animals.
- detentionTemporary official holding
- detention centerPlace for confining detainees
- jailDetention facility
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- cellBasic unit of life
cage · lockup · warehouse · storage · custody · confinement · border patrol · immigration detention · inmates · guards · fence · barbed wire · chain link · compound · temporary shelter · asylum · camp · quarantine
- imprisonmentprison, jail, prisoners, cells, captivity
- detention rightshabeas corpus, pretrial detention, pre-trial detention, remand, detention hearing
- juvenile detentionjuvenile hall, juvie, reform school, detention center, youth detention
- emergency facilitiesfire station, police station, hospital, emergency room, ER
- transit hubsairport, airport terminal, airports, train station, train stations
- prisoner transportprison bus, prison transfer, secure transport, federal marshal, shackles
holding facilitypermanent residence
Fixed long-term dwelling
family home · forever home · homestead · domicile · home
holding facilityopen space
Unobstructed outdoor area
public square · freedom · free world · sanctuary · refuge
holding facilityindependent living
Managing without assistance
hold, holding, holds, holder, holders, behold, beholden, withhold, withholds