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detention center

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  1. A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
  2. 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.
  3. A concentration camp.

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