detention centre

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
2. isim An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.

   “New detention centres were opened, all in remote areas — at Woomera in the South Australian desert in November 1999, and the Curtin Detention Centre at Derby in Western Australia in February 2000.”

3. isim A concentration camp.