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detention centre a place where persons (typically asylum seekers, illegal immigrants, or people awaiting trial) may be detained for short periods by order of a court How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Detainees cannot leave the detention centre and they live behind locked gates and walls topped with barbed wire. In a youth detention centre in Queensland, a mentoring program has been designed to meet the needs of the predominantly Indigenous, male population. Following a Federal Court judgement which criticised the government for failing in its duty of care toward two Iranian men in need of psychiatric treatment in the Baxter Detention Centre, Mental Health Council chair Keith Wilson said all detainees with mental health issues should be released into the care of mental health services. |
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