Detention Home (Noun)
Meaning
An institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court).
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The court decided to send the 15-year-old boy to a detention home for three weeks as punishment for vandalism.
- Many communities rely on local detention homes to provide short-term housing for minors awaiting trial or sentencing.
- After getting in trouble for the third time, the teenager was sentenced to six months at the county's juvenile detention home.
- At the detention home, staff and counselors worked to rehabilitate young offenders and teach them valuable life skills.
- While her parents were on a trip, 13-year-old Emma got in trouble and spent two weeks in a juvenile detention home for truancy and theft.