Detention
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- Detention (2003 film)
- Detention, a form of punishment used in schools School punishment is a hierarchy of penalties used to punish infractions of rules in a school setting. There are wide variations in practice between schools in different cultures, countries or states, and between different types of school in the same country. Nevertheless, there are certain near-universal punishments, ranging from verbal
- Detention (Cold Case Episode), Episode 58 (Series 3 Episode 12) of CBS TV Drama Cold Case.
- Detention basin A detention basin is a stormwater management facility installed on, or adjacent to, tributaries of rivers, streams, lakes or bays that is designed to protect against flooding and, in some cases, downstream erosion by storing water for a limited period of a time. These basins are also called "dry ponds", "holding ponds" or ", an artificial flow control structure that is used to contain flood water for a limited period of a time
- Detention (TV series)
- Detention (imprisonment) Detention generally refers to a state or government holding a person in a particular area , either for interrogation, as punishment for a crime (see prison), or as a precautionary measure while that person is suspected of posing a potential threat, imprisonment of somebody guilty or suspected of a crime
- Detention (convention), The 17th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Detroit in 1959
- Immigration detention Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorised arrival in detention until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure. Mandatory detention is the practice of compulsorily, imprisonment of unauthorised person entering a country
See also
- All pages beginning with "Detention"
- All pages with titles containing "Detention"
- Prison A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Other terms are penitentiary, correctional facility, and jail (or gaol), although in the United States "jail" and "prison" refer to different subtypes of correctional facility. Jails are conventionally
- Detonation (disambiguation)
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Los Angeles Times (blog) As far as jails go, the Los Angeles Police Department's gleaming new Metropolitan Detention Center is about as good as it gets. ... LAPD's new $74 million jail left vacant San Jose Mercury News New jail remains empty amid LAPD hiring freeze 89.3 kpcc lapd's new 74-million dollar jail sits empty due to crunch People's Daily Online
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