Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing their freedom or liberty at that time. Being detained does not always result in being taken to a particular area (generally called a detention centre), either for interrogation or as punishment for a crime (see prison).

Originally Answered: What is the difference between detention center and jail? In California, a detention center is for pre-trial confinement, while jail is for those who have been convicted. Often, both categories are housed together.

Prisons are state or federal housing facilities that confine convicted felons with sentences typically longer than a year. Jails are administered by local law enforcement and hold offenders​ with shorter sentences — usually for 1 year or less — and those awaiting trial.

Typically, detentions are served after school. Instead of going home at the end of the day, the student reports to a designated classroom where he or she must sit in a desk for an amount of time generally rang- ing from 10 minutes to two hours, with an hour or less being most typical.

There are commonly two types of detentions: Punitive detention, which means detention as a punishment for the criminal offence. It occurs after an offence is actually committed, or an attempt has been made towards the commission of that crime.

A detention center, or detention centre, is any location used for detention. Specifically, it can mean: A jail or prison, a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as a form of punishment after being convicted of crimes.

Preventive detention is the act of detaining someone who has not committed any act but on mere suspicion that he/she is likely to commit crime in future. In general, preventive detention is good because it prevents individuals from committing crime, but bad because it infringes fundamental rights.

The main purpose of preventive detention is to protect society. The Federal Bail Reform Act was created to provide those with less financial resources the opportunity to be free before they faced trial. However, due to a related increase in crime, preventive detention was refined.

According to Preventive Detention Act 1950, it can be extended beyond three months up to a total of twelve months, only on the favourable recommendation of an advisory board, made up of High Court judges or persons eligible to be appointed High Court judges.

The Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) was a controversial law passed by the Indian parliament in 1971 giving the administration of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Indian law enforcement agencies very broad powers – indefinite preventive detention of individuals, search and seizure of property without …

The National Security Act of 1980 is an act of the Indian Parliament promulgated on 23 September, 1980 whose purpose is “to provide for preventive detention in certain cases and for matters connected therewith”. The act extends to the whole of India.

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