Detention in a sentence as a noun

His requests as to the nature of his detention were denied.

The most recent time, April 5, she took notes during her detention.

Selling my dad's car was the last straw and we sent him to a juvenile detention/rehab/detox center to recover.

" Preventive detention though they don't call it that has been mainstreamed, due process sacrificed to efficiency.

We called him into a team meeting, and he sauntered in, ready for whatever we could give him - in-school suspension, after-school detention.

It is the civil equivalent of "preventive detention" in criminal cases -- punishment without proof.

Assassination, torture, rendition, and detention without trial are all normalised now in the US for terrorists.

During his detention he was repeatedly sexually assaulted, withheld legal counsel, and coerced to confess with false promises of freedom.

Oh, and apparently we now do indefinite detention as well, without legal representation except in front of a kangaroo court, maybe, eventually.

No, continue indefinite detentions without trial and/or execute Americans without a trial.

"DHS lawyers claimed that international travel provides, in and of itself, sufficient Constitutional basis for detention and search of international travellers and the search, seizure and copying of the digital contents of their belongings."Really?

Detention definitions

noun

a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police"

See also: detainment hold custody

noun

a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home; "the detention of tardy pupils"