WordNet
n. an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) [syn: detention home, detention house, house of detention]
Usage examples of "detention camp".
If you don't go along with this I'm going to personally see to it that you're the last person out of the Caraolos detention camp.
Conditions here in Avalon are far worse than they were even in the detention camp at Bourges.
I had a cousin once was sent to the Insane Detention Camp on Calabar: he went crazy as a gyro with half a wheel gone.
In due course a number of selected partisans were marched into a detention camp, and the other men, together with the women, were allowed to return to their homes.
The only compensation was that this was not, after all, a Gubru detention camp.
Then they went looking to make contact with government leaders, and naturally they were rounded up very swiftly and interned, some in mental hospitals and some in county jails, but eventually-as soon as the truth of what they really were sank in-they were all put in a special detention camp in northern California.
Keeping in the sheltered gloom of the underbrush, they skirted the detention camp for the Chinese laborers.