noun
definition
Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement.
Examples of detainees in a Sentence
For security reasons detainees are required to wear a colored bib for the duration of the visit.
The transfer of all British detainees to the UK had been secured.
They also used vouchers to try to bribe detainees to disclose the names of the people who organized the strike.
Security guards also prevented detainees from accessing the center's exercise yard and didn't even allow them to approach the windows.
Please call on the US government to release all detainees.
The whole system has been designed to strip immigration detainees of humanity.
As Robin says, how many of those INS detainees were held as a result of this, or some less deliberate bureaucratic foul-up?
Detainees have staged mass hunger strikes and physically resisted their deportations.
The detainees were fed starvation rations once a day, with little time to eat.
These centers are prisons in all but name, with detainees having fewer legal rights than criminals arrested on charges of rape and murder.
There are sections devoted to the Birdman of Alcatraz and the daily lives of the prison's detainees, plus a rundown of the 14 inmate escape attempts.
A further consequence, however, is that participating boroughs are now more likely to identify potential immigration detainees.
The trio of retired officers recently filed a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of 16 detainees held for almost two years.
As for having sympathy with the three Britons who were found among the Afghan detainees.
The remaining British detainees should be immediately returned to the United Kingdom.