Definition of House of detention

1. Noun. An institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court).


Lexicographical Neighbors of House Of Detention

house keeper
house martin
house martins
house master
house mice
house mouse
house music
house number
house numbers
house of God
house of accommodation
house of cards
house of correction
house of detention (current term)
house of ill repute
house of prayer
house of worship
house officer
house organ
house organs
house paint
house painter
house painting
house parties
house party
house physician
house plant

Literary usage of House of detention

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1919)
"The efforts to secure places of detention for girls in camp cities have resulted in part as follows: PETERSBURG, VA., has established a house of detention, ..."

2. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"... them—Railway-cars—Charcoal Stoves—Ladies' Cars — Spittoons — Massachusetts and New York — Police-cells and Prisons—House of Detention and Inmates—Women ..."

3. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Mr. Cole's Pictures.—Architecture and the Fine Arts.—New-York Churches.—University.— —Astor House.—House of Detention.—Building in Egyptian Style. ..."

4. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"House of Detention—Explosion and Attempted Rescue of Fenian Prisoners—St. ... THE House of Detention, Clerkenwell, a place of imprisonment as old as 1775, ..."

5. The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy by Pennsylvania Prison Society (1888)
"house of detention, JUVENILE.—About three hundred annually of both sexes, between eight and sixteen years, are brought to the County Prison and placed in a ..."

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