What is "detainees"

Usage examples of "detainees".

There was a small adjoining paradise with roses and nightingales, and a few of the earlier detainees were taking advantage of this chance to stretch their legs.

Toa-Sytcll himself had looked over the detainees, and Caine was not among them.

We will go down and watch the detainees being given the evening meaU The deutinees-lined up in utter silence, shuffling forward to be 1 77 fed.

They ate with the Shona officers in the mess, and the fare was the same as that served to detainees with the addition of a stew of stringy meat of indeterminate origin and dubious freshness.

And five days later, a convoy of army trucks arrived carrying two hundred detainees from the rehabilitation centres.