Wiktionary
n. (context US English) An institution in which juvenile offenders are temporarily housed
WordNet
n. an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) [syn: detention house, house of detention, detention camp]
Usage examples of "detention home".
They called it the Juvenile Detention Home, but it wasn't like any home Weed had ever been in.
English was transferred to a detention home pending correspondence with Washington authorities.
But this girl disappeared from a detention home somehow before the case came to court, so it had to be dropped.
Nellie Fleisher received a term of 10 years in a Federal detention home.
While I stand gripping the bars, you, happy neglected child, will be given a choice of various dwelling places, all more or less the same, the correctional school, the reformatory, the juvenile detention home, or one of those admirable girls’.