A large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily.
1Well... actually, I was in a detention cell at the police station.
2Get a detention cell ready, will you?'
3That was the Maria he had to remember: beautiful, enjoying life, not the scarred and tortured shell in the Locust detention cell.
4Prison and medical authorities said Topaz, charged with plotting the assaults, was dead in a shower stall next to his detention cell.
5In fact, he should have this fellow in the detention cell by now, waiting for the major to see him in the morning.
6Indonesian militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir arrives in a detention cell before his trial at South Jakarta court June 16, 2011.
7I followed him through the building's hallways until we reached the detention cells.
8Coughing and retching, Jack staggered towards the detention cells.
9You have a reservation in Detention Cell Three.
10These walkways, several levels of them, ran parallel to smooth curving walls which held faceless detention cells.
11The proposal would also see recording equipment covering everyone who had access to both interview rooms and detention cells.
12Sagaga says the pair will be locked in their detention cells for 21 days as part of their punishment for escaping.
13Al Shabaab claimed it had broken into the police station at Gamba during the raid on Saturday and freed suspects from detention cells.
Translations for detention cell