A form of discipline that involves keeping a pupil in at playtime, lunchtime or after school. Pupils in detention are usually set written work to complete during this time. Although heads have the authority to detain pupils after school, parents must...

Detention may refer to: Detention (2003 film) Detention (academia), a punishment used in schools Detention (Cold Case Episode), Episode 58 (Series 3 Episode 12) of CBS TV Drama Cold Case. Detention (band), a band from New Jersey Detention basin, an...

With the changes that are taking place in the builders hardware (Section 08710) distributor's business - namely, the expanded involvement with hollow metal doors and frames, wood doors, electronic and electrified hardware, security systems and access controls - it would seem that detention...

Detained: Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex Temple University Press 264 pages, $18.95. In Eden, Texas, population 2,500, fully half the population is behind bars. They are prisoners at the Eden Detention Center, owned and operated by Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation...

Vietnam has abolished a measure used to hold dissidents without trial, a government official said Wednesday. However, analysts said the move could prove to be largely symbolic.President Nguyen Minh Triet signed a decree last week to abolish "administrative probation," used to hold people suspected of...

The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday to free 11 people detained by authorities for providing Al-Jazeera television with a videotape of an interview of a woman accusing three security officers of raping her.Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim...

Argues that Saturday detentions are not a good idea, using various reasons to explain why.