house of detention in English
institution in which juvenile offenders are confined
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1. ‘A Cask of gunpowder was fired close to the wall of the Clerkenwell House of Detention, at 3.45 p.m
2. Later, “Evil-merodach the king of Babylon, in the year of his becoming king, raised up the head of Jehoiachin the king of Judah out of the house of detention.”