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  • Thumbnail for Tokyo Detention House
    Tokyo Detention House (東京拘置所, Tōkyō Kōchisho) is a correctional facility in Katsushika, Tokyo. The prison, which is operated by the Ministry of Justice...
    8 KB (652 words) - 18:02, 17 August 2024
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    York City Halls of Justice and House of Detention 1902–1941, City Prison 1941–2023, Manhattan House of Detention (became Manhattan Detention Complex South...
    26 KB (2,581 words) - 19:30, 13 August 2024
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    inmates. According to scholar Ervand Abrahamian: "In theory, Evin was a detention center for those awaiting trial", after which the prisoners would be transferred...
    48 KB (5,189 words) - 21:39, 27 August 2024
  • Hiroshima Detention House (広島拘置所, Hiroshima Kōchisho) is a correctional facility in Naka-ku, Hiroshima. A part of the penal system of Japan, it is operated...
    2 KB (145 words) - 17:15, 1 May 2024
  • York Women's House of Detention was a women's prison in Manhattan, New York City which existed from 1932 to 1974. Built on the site of the Jefferson...
    9 KB (881 words) - 19:53, 30 July 2024
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    Osaka Detention House (大阪拘置所, Osaka Kōchisho) is a correctional facility in Miyakojima-ku, Osaka. A part of the penal system of Japan, it is operated...
    3 KB (230 words) - 18:11, 7 June 2024
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    Pre-trial detention, also known as jail, preventive detention, provisional detention, or remand, is the process of detaining a person until their trial...
    48 KB (5,852 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2024
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    Clerkenwell (old) Prison, also known as the Clerkenwell House of Detention or Middlesex House of Detention was a prison in Clerkenwell, London, opened in 1847...
    6 KB (484 words) - 16:21, 2 July 2024
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    Bronx House of Detention for Men, south of Yankee Stadium. The US$500 million shopping center, which was completed in 2009, saw the construction of new...
    16 KB (1,615 words) - 14:50, 23 August 2024
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    The Clerkenwell Catacombs are a complex of tunnels originally situated beneath the Clerkenwell House of Detention, and once contained 286 prison cells....
    3 KB (352 words) - 13:10, 3 April 2023
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    Afeni Shakur (category Members of the Black Panther Party)
    spent two years in the New York Women's House of Detention before being acquitted. While in the House of Detention, Shakur says, she "began relating to the...
    21 KB (2,325 words) - 17:16, 12 June 2024
  • Fukuoka Detention House (福岡拘置所, Fukuoka Kōchisho) is a correctional facility in Sawara-ku, Fukuoka. A part of the penal system of Japan, it is operated...
    1 KB (109 words) - 22:18, 30 April 2024
  • Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival, as well as those subject...
    49 KB (4,751 words) - 18:51, 29 August 2024
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    In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or, in modern times, electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person...
    36 KB (4,596 words) - 18:19, 3 August 2024
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    Nagoya Detention House (名古屋拘置所, Nagoya Kōchisho) is a correctional facility in Higashi-ku, Nagoya. A part of the penal system of Japan, it is operated...
    3 KB (99 words) - 21:08, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Campsfield House
    Campsfield House was an immigration detention centre located in Kidlington near Oxford, England, operated by private prison firm Group 4 under contract...
    14 KB (1,718 words) - 13:35, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carandiru Penitentiary
    Carandiru Penitentiary, officially São Paulo House of Detention (Portuguese: Casa de Detenção de São Paulo) was a prison located in São Paulo, Brazil....
    5 KB (396 words) - 15:26, 2 February 2024
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    The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/...
    285 KB (28,932 words) - 18:41, 29 August 2024
  • Indefinite detention is the incarceration of an arrested person by a national government or law enforcement agency for an indefinite amount of time without...
    23 KB (2,175 words) - 13:44, 30 July 2024
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    Attica Prison riot (category History of African-American civil rights)
    Manhattan House of Detention, the Brooklyn House of Detention, The Queens Branch House of Detention at Kew Gardens, the Queens Branch House of Detention at Long...
    79 KB (8,898 words) - 20:15, 30 August 2024
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