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So they put me in a detention centre for six months.

They are believed to be held at the county police detention centre.

She seems to think this is a hotel, not a detention centre.

They might hold them for anything up to a week at the airport detention centre.

He is now being held in an immigration detention centre.

However, it is now a detention centre for male adults.

Between 1966 and 1989 it operated as a senior detention centre.

It continues in use as a detention centre for male adults.

He was transferred to an immigration detention centre in May 2008.

This immigration detention centre will house up to 400 refugees.

The detention centre was not built to cope with this capacity.

It's planned to turn part of the site into a detention centre for the immigration service.

She is being held in a federal detention centre in Houston.

A periodic detention centre for males was opened in March 1997.

I fear that few of our colleagues will have been curious enough to go and see what a detention centre is really like.

I was told very clearly that my next thing was detention centre.

The stadium was used as a detention centre during the Paris massacre of 1961.

He later supported the building of a detention centre in a different part of the community.

Michael is arrested and placed in a detention centre.

The protest would last the long weekend of Easter in a camp near the detention centre.

Shane's name is eventually cleared after serving several weeks in a detention centre.

From 2001 to 2007, the Nauru detention centre provided a source of income for the small country.

Conditions in the privatised detention centre, run by an American company, were far from satisfactory.

He was arrested in 1959 and sent for hard labour at a public security detention centre near Beijing.

Eventually Marshall was caught and sentenced to a juvenile detention centre.

And she's now spent three weeks in a federal detention center.

"They said to come to the detention center to take our children back."

There is evidence of its use as a detention center since 1976 and until 1979.

Three months later, the letter came back to the detention center.

I agreed, and he took me to the detention center.

There are more stories than ever before like these at the detention center.

He said the average waiting time in a detention center is 45 days.

The army said 700 men had been sent to the detention center.

The next morning, when the six men walked free from a Federal detention center, he was at their side.

A young black man in a detention center says, "I am nothing."

They are sent to a women's detention center for holding.

"It was their first day at the detention center," she said.

Each conviction brought a 10-day stay in a detention center, or community service.

But he may well be moved to another detention center at any moment without notice, the officials add.

He was held at the federal detention center in Honolulu.

He was away for a few months in a juvenile detention center.

Eventually, he was moved to Miami and held in a detention center.

They are being held at various detention centers around the country.

So they put me in a detention centre for six months.

He gets sent to a detention center because his family is illegal.

The child was removed from the school and sent to a detention center.

Some people say any project in the area, even a detention center, would help boost the economy.

So he was sent to a juvenile detention center for just 18 months.

They were killed in a car wreck on the way to a detention center.

She did time in a juvenile detention center, and has since changed her ways.