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Meanings of preventive detention in English
Portuguese
prisão preventiva Spanish
detención preventiva The imprisonment of a person in order to prevent that person from committing a crime that he or she is deemed likely to commit.
Synonyms
Examples for "preventive custody"
Examples for "preventive custody"
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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.
Usage of preventive detention in English
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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.
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Subsequent serious sexual offences saw him sentenced to two terms of preventive detention.
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There's such a thing as preventive detention in this country now, you know.
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Mr Mackay said Wilson should have been given preventive detention.
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A probation officer told the court a sentence of preventive detention would be best.
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But Justice Whata was not convinced preventive detention was necessary.
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Peter Robert Jordan will serve preventive detention for sexually abusing three boys in Waitara.
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However, an appeal against conviction was dismissed and the preventive detention sentence remains in place.
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However, it does not cover those on preventive detention.
11
He issued a first-strike warning, telling Nelson he faced a potential sentence of preventive detention.
12
A repeat child sex offender giggled in court, before he was sentenced to preventive detention.
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But the judge stepped back from imposing preventive detention.
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He is serving a life sentence for the murder and preventive detention for the rape.
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Peter Robert Jordan was sentenced yesterday to preventive detention with a 12- year minimum non parole period.
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While you agonise over preventive detention you state public unease about crime and criminality must hold sway.
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