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Definition of House of detention
1. Noun. An institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court).
Generic synonyms: Correctional Institution
Lexicographical Neighbors of House Of Detention
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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