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  2. Detention (confinement) - Wikipedia

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    Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen holds a person by removing or restricting their freedom or liberty at that time. Detention can be due to (pending) criminal charges against the individual pursuant to a prosecution or to protect a person or property.

  3. Google Input Tools - Wikipedia

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    Later on, because of its steady rise in popularity, it was released as Google Transliteration IME for offline use in December 2009. It works on a dictionary-based phonetic transliteration approach, which means that whatever you type in Latin characters, it matches the characters with its dictionary and transliterates them.

  4. Pre-trial detention - Wikipedia

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    Pre-trial detention, also known as jail, preventive detention, provisional detention, or remand, is the process of detaining a person until their trial after they have been arrested and charged with an offence. A person who is on remand is held in a prison or detention centre or held under house arrest.

  5. Arrest warrant - Wikipedia

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    Czech courts may issue an arrest warrant when it is not possible to summon or bring in for questioning a charged person and at the same time there is a reason for detention (i.e. concern that the charged person would either flee, interfere with the proceedings or continue criminal activity, see Remand in the Czech Republic).

  6. Imprisonment - Wikipedia

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    Before colonisation, imprisonment was used in sub-Saharan Africa for pre-trial detention, to secure compensation and as a last resort but not generally as punishment, except in the Songhai Empire (1464–1591) and in connection with the slave trade. [3] [4] In the colonial period, imprisonment provided a source of labor and a means of ...

  7. Prison slang - Wikipedia

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    Definition Base Mattress Bomb Explosive or banned commodities Boma Prison Bongirlfaya Translates to the word "wildcat," means "peeping" (in reference to a cat's vision and sly behavior) Cash Money/bathing soap (due to soap being a commodity) Chitima Translates to the word "train," means "inmates who water the garden in a 'line' form" Chikepe

  8. Indefinite detention - Wikipedia

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    Indefinite detention is the incarceration of an arrested person by a national government or law enforcement agency for an indefinite amount of time without a trial. The Human Rights Watch considers this practice as violating national and international laws , particularly human rights laws, although it remains in legislation in various liberal ...

  9. Administrative detention - Wikipedia

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    Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial. A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security reasons. Many countries [ 1 ] claim to use administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism or rebellion , to control illegal immigration , or to otherwise protect the ruling regime.