A large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily.
1The letter contains damning allegations about medical procedure inside the detention centre.
2The transfer would leave 80 prisoners at the detention centre in Cuba.
3After several weeks in a detention centre, he was released on bail.
4Early in the week three teenagers absconded from Oberstown youth detention centre.
5As at early October, the Christmas Island detention centre housed 285 people.
6Are we going to be taken into a detention centre or something?
7More now on the re-taking of the Christmas Island detention centre yesterday.
8Duncan Poroa is being held at the detention centre on Christmas Island.
9The immigration authority sent him to Lindela, the detention centre in Johannesburg.
10Every time we go to MITA detention centre I get very anxious.
11Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters campaign for the shutdown of the detention centre.
12Mr Rintoul says infections, skin disease are endemic in the detention centre.
13Several rights groups have criticised the harsh conditions at the Nauru detention centre.
14David Yapu said police are stationed outside and not inside the detention centre.
15The PNG Supreme Cout ruled last year the detention centre must be closed.
16Water and power has been cut off to parts of the detention centre.
Translations for detention centre