(n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
(n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
(n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
(2) It was one of a series of deaths of black men – deaths in custody, deaths where no one ever got to the bottom of what had happened.
(3) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(4) A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent.
(5) The US department of justice is understood to have opened an investigation into the death, and four others in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, following a referral from the CIA.
(6) In a sample of men remanded into custody for medical reports during a three-month period, it was found that those who received recommendations for treatment had a diagnosis of acute mental illness, had in the past been admitted more frequently to mental hospitals and had spent a longer period as in-patients.
(7) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
(8) Jeffrey Epstein in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008.
(9) Of the 11 people in custody, five were arrested while driving on a remote highway on Tuesday afternoon , three were arrested in separate incidents outside the refuge that evening, and three more subsequently turned themselves in at FBI checkpoints just outside the refuge.
(10) Although major reforms are underway in many total institutions to humanize treatment procedures, innovative alternatives to custodial care are gaining impetus in the community.
(11) Indigenous man's death in custody blamed on NT 'paperless arrest' powers Read more In line with the findings of the royal commission, Cavanagh said the increased number of Indigenous people in custody would likely lead to a proportionate increase in custodial deaths.
(12) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
(13) Therefore, no institution can be therapeutic for the patient, since its aim must be his custody and violent destruction.
(14) Leyla Yunus has diabetes and hepatitis C. The health of both Yunuses has gravely deteriorated over the year they’ve already spent in custody.
(15) It is understood that this second callout was in relation to the death in custody.
(16) His client has been in custody since Saturday when he was arrested in connection with the New IRA attack.
(17) Hallam told the hearing: “If legal aid is being refused to people such as this, I am satisfied that injustices will occur … Mothers in her situation should have proper and full access to the court with the assistance of legal advice.” Parents involved in custody battles are no longer eligible for legal aid following cuts imposed by the justice secretary Chris Grayling in April last year .
(18) This is evidence that custodial workers as a group have had asbestos exposure in the past, as reflected also in the work histories obtained at the time of examination.
(19) But in January 2010, men snatched Mobley off the street, shot him in the leg and took him into custody.
(20) There are two basic findings from the hospitalization outcome literature: Active treatment is more effective than custodial care, and length-of-stay has little influence on later outcome.
Lockup
Definition:
(n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The report specifies nothing about Freeman’s time at the secretive compound save for a seeming arrival at 4.10pm, only to note that he arrived in nearby district 11 lockup at 10.32pm.
(2) Inquests are yet to be held into the deaths of Maureen Mandijarra, a 44-year-old Aboriginal woman who died in Broome lockup on 30 November 2012, and Jayden Bennell, a 20-year-old Aboriginal man who died on 7 March 2013.
(3) Hayes needed to pay $854 to the court to avoid a jail sentence; because he had no money except a $730-a-month disability check, he was thrown in Richmond County lockup.
(4) Booking isn’t happening or is happening sporadically and inconsistently, which leads to the whole find-your-client game Craig Futterman, University of Chicago Law School “They’re not given access to phones, and the CPD’s admitted this, until they get to lockup – but there’s no lockup at Homan Square,” he said.
(5) We need to be pro-life for the 16-year-old drug addict on the floor of the county lockup,” he said.
(6) But he got into trouble again in both Alice and Darwin, and spent a few months in Darwin’s adult lockup.
(7) As my Canberra colleagues decamp to the budget lockup room you're with me for the next few hours as we await what will no doubt be a heated and revealing question time.
(8) Project staff from the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) gathered information from all jails (county and city) and police department lockups throughout the country regarding the incidence of jail suicides during 1985 and 1986.
(9) Dhu was taken into custody at the police lockup in South Hedland three days before her death after failing to pay a $1,000 fine.
(10) We need to be pro-life for the 16-year-old drug addict on the floor of the county lockup Chris Christie, New Jersey governor For Christie, who has placed his emphasis on New Hampshire while facing an uphill battle for the Republican nomination, heroin has been a key tenet of his campaign and was the subject of his first two television ads.
(11) The issue recently gained wider attention after the death of a 22-year-old Indigenous woman at a Port Hedland lockup .
(12) As I’m still down in the budget lockup, the opening couple of posts tonight are just going to help us set the scene without breaching any state secrets.
(13) During lockup other subsystems may be examined but action on them is delayed.
(14) Ms Dhu, whose first name is withheld for cultural reasons, was arrested for more than $1000 in unpaid fines and placed in the lockup of the South Hedland police station, 1640km north of Perth, to “cut out” her fines.
(15) Early investors in Chinese online giant Alibaba are set to sell $8bn worth of shares Friday morning, escaping the “lockup” that usually requires them to hold their shares for several months.
(16) The figures do not include people who died in police custody, like 22-year-old Yamatji woman Ms Dhu , whose name is not used at her the request of her family, who died in the South Hedland lockup in August 2014.
(17) Evidence for 'cognitive lockup' and for a preference for serial fault management were found.
(18) He twice escaped prison: first in in 2001, when he was wheeled in a laundry cart out the front door of a Guadalajara lockup, and again in 2015 as he slipped through a shaft connecting the shower in his cell with a mile-long tunnel built during his detention by associates.
(19) The issue attracted national attention when a 22-year-old Yamatji woman, Ms Dhu, died in Port Hedland police lockup after spending three days in custody to “pay down” overdue fines.
(20) This would address concerns that the end of a six-month lockup on share sales by major institutional investors timed for this Friday – and scheduled to free up an estimated 1.2 trillion yuan worth of shares for sale next Monday – would result in a massive institutional evacuation from stocks.