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Meanings of preventive custody in English
The imprisonment of a person in order to prevent that person from committing a crime that he or she is deemed likely to commit.
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Examples for "preventive detention"
Examples for "preventive detention"
1
She asked Justice Lang not to impose the crushing sentence of preventive detention.
2
Whereas those people on preventive detention, they don't have to be released ever.
3
Subsequent serious sexual offences saw him sentenced to two terms of preventive detention.
4
There's such a thing as preventive detention in this country now, you know.
5
Mr Mackay said Wilson should have been given preventive detention.
Usage of preventive custody in English
1
She has already spent four years in preventive custody.
2
A Portuguese judge has charged former prime minister José Sócrates with corruption and tax fraud and ordered that he remain in preventive custody.
3
The investigating judge however, ordered the remaining four suspects to be sent into preventive custody on October 3 in Ontinyent, 80 km south of Valencia.