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"detention camp" is a place where individuals, often immigrants or people deemed a threat, are held for a period of time. It is usually operated by authorities and people in these camps are not allowed to leave.
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«detention»
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Sentences with «detention camp»
- To some, Khadr is a child soldier who was brainwashed by his parents and then abandoned by the Canadian government in the notorious and illegal Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. (canadianlawyermag.com)
- For this month's Artscape, the visual artist Debi Cornwall talks to Rhode Island Public Radio's Chuck Hinman about making pictures at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (ripr.org)
- This is a first, as theater productions at other detention camps for juveniles have traditionally — and strictly — been extracurricular. (edutopia.org)
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