Detainees in a sentence

The court stated that due to the large number of sudden arrests and transfers, more convicts and detainees enter the institution, and therefore the prison houses more convicts and detainees than its maximum capacity.

In December, the Palestinian Authority's Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs at least 142 females - including senior women and infants - are currently held in Israeli jails.

According to Senior Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, there are 1,200 detainees in Bukit Jalil centre and 1,600 detainees in the Semenyih facility.

A letter sent on 21 April to the Ministry of Justice on behalf of detainees highlighted the persistent overcrowding, describing the nursing station in prisons as "saturated with sick detainees" and the medical staff as "overwhelmed".

Former detainees said they witnessed the death of three other detainees in custody because of ill-treatment and lack of medical care.

Officers and NCOs from the Military Intelligence unit would direct guards to “smoke” the detainees prior to an interrogation and would direct that certain detainees were not to receive sleep, water, or food beyond crackers.

Other attorneys working to release the detainees said few, if any, of the detainees were serving a criminal sentence but were housed in a criminal setting in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Several of the detainees have been taken to facilities in Washington and Colorado, without any advance warning to the detainees’ families, some family members alleged at the rally.

The residential portion of the facility consists of four “pods,” one of which is exclusively for male ICE detainees and one of which is for women, including ICE detainees.

During the 1947–1962 period, many people were arbitrarily killed or imprisoned for political, economic or unknown reasons: citation detainees in prisons or camps, deported persons, persons under house arrest, and administrative detainees.

Abu Eita is a former minister and current member of Egypt’s presidential pardon committee, tasked with granting clemency towards some of the tens of thousands of detainees in the Egyptian prison system.

According to a legal orientation program coordinator at Catholic Charities, those presentations are still ongoing virtually — detainees watch a video and can be connected online to a presenter and an interpreter.

At the time of Burham’s escape, the jail was housing 87 detainees.

Child and adult detainees were subjected to torture and other ill-treatment including severe beatings and injuries from paintball launchers fired at close range.

Detainees at the Cook County Jail pray during a Christmas Day mass at the jail on Dec. 25, 2023.

Detainees from a number of "major" facilities were released on Sunday morning, said the West African nation's information minister.

Detainees gave testimonies on how Israeli prison authorities subjected them to food deprivation, medical negligence, regular beatings and menacing threats aimed at them and their families.

Eyvin Hernandez, a Los Angeles County public defender arrested almost two years ago along the Colombia-Venezuela border, was one of the U.S. detainees.

From 1953, a policy to compel detainees to engage in work was introduced and disobedience was redefined as a major offence.

Gaza’s Health Ministry has echoed the allegation, saying at least five detainees were shot by IDF troops after being told to return to the hospital.