Usually means: Facilities for holding detained individuals.
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  1. detention centres: Collins English Dictionary
  2. detention centres: Vocabulary.com
  3. detention centres: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. detention centres: Wiktionary
  5. Detention centres: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detention centre)

noun:  A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
noun:  (Australia) An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.
noun:  A concentration camp.
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