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- noun Plural form of
detainee .
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Examples
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"Humiliation of prisoners and detainees is not the way of the State of Israel, nor that of the Jewish people."
For Israeli army, tests of accountability Joel Greenberg 2010
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"Humiliation of prisoners and detainees is not the way of the State of Israel, nor that of the Jewish people."
For Israeli army, tests of accountability Joel Greenberg 2010
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National Journal in 2006 ran perhaps the most comprehensive study of the Guantanamo population and concluded that "Much of the evidence against the detainees is weak."
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President Barack Obama has directed the federal government to buy the near-empty state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., to house federal inmates and up to 100 detainees from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said late Monday.
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Illinois state officials have said the plan would call for housing federal prisoners, including some detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in the largely vacant maximum-security facility in northern Illinois.
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My force policy on searching of prisoners in the custody office, for transexual/transgender detainees, is that they should be regarded as being the sex that they ‘live as’.
Five Go Camping In Hampshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Do you really think treatment of detainees is going to be an issue in the primaries?
Matthew Yglesias » What Happened to Petraeus for President? 2010
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Do you really think treatment of detainees is going to be an issue in the primaries?
Matthew Yglesias » What Happened to Petraeus for President? 2010
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But applying it to WoT detainees is scary, because the war on AQ could realistically go on at a low simmer forever.
Matthew Yglesias » Indefinite Detention Comes to American Soil 2010
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Washington (CNN) – A limited number of detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison will be transferred to a prison in Illinois, President Obama will announce Tuesday, a senior administration official said.
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