The project included adetentioncentre, a vegetable market, a cinema and a backpacker hostel.
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Unfortunately, clinical details of influenza-like illness in thedetentioncentrewere not available.
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Thedetentioncentrealso held over 30 children at that time, a potential source of influenza virus transmission.
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While the creative team responsible for the play had no direct experience of life in adetentioncentre, they did spend a lot of time interviewing refugees.
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The scene reinforces the strict hierarchy that operates amongst thedetentioncentreworkers, many of whom are migrants with experiences not dissimilar to those of the people they imprison.
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Work to renovate the currentdetentioncentrehas just been completed to improve the living conditions of detainees significantly.
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I fear that few of our colleagues will have been curious enough to go and see what adetentioncentreis really like.
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A child may not be sent for borstal treatment or even to adetentioncentreuntil he is 15.
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I happened to be invited by the warden of adetentioncentrethe other day to help a young man coming out of the centre.
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It was unforgivable, and one would like to think that it could not happen at anydetentioncentre.
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But, in fact, there is no intention that thedetentioncentreshould be the bottom rung of an escalator of punishment.
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Clause 4 enables a court, in the case of any offence carrying a sentence of imprisonment, to make adetentioncentreorder.
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I do not think that you will find a housemaster in adetentioncentreof 80 people.
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In our view, a total term of nine months in adetentioncentremay be very sharp, but certainly cannot be regarded as short.
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The girls who come before the courts do not correspond to the kind of youth for whom thedetentioncentreis said to be successful.
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