Definition of Detention. Meaning of Detention. Synonyms of Detention

- Look up detention in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Detention may refer to: Detention (confinement), the restriction of liberty of someone suspected...
- The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as GTMO (/ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh), GITMO (/ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh), or simply Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military...
- Pre-trial detention, also known as jail, preventive detention, provisional detention, or remand, is the process of detaining a person until their trial...
- Wrongful detention is the detention of an individual where there is no likelihood or evidence that they have committed a crime against a legal statute...
- A detention dam is a dam built to catch surface runoff and stream water flow to regulate the water flow in areas below the dam. Detention dams are commonly...
- The Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn (MDC Brooklyn) is a United States federal administrative detention facility in the Sunset Park neighborhood...
- criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, observation...
- transnational crime, where as ERO is responsible for the apprehension, detention and removal of illegal immigrants. The acting director is Caleb Vitello...
- Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen holds a person by removing or restricting their freedom or liberty at that time. Detention...
- Custodial Detention Index (CDI), or Custodial Detention List was formed in 1939–1941, as part of a program named variously the "Custodial Detention Program"...