Detention

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Detention may refer to:

Types of detention

  • Detention (imprisonment), imprisonment of someone guilty or suspected of a crime
  • Detention basin, an artificial flow control structure that is used to contain flood water for a limited period of time
  • Immigration detention, imprisonment of an unauthorised person entering a country
  • Preventive detention, detention intended to prevent criminal acts
  • Remand (detention), the keeping in custody of an arrested person awaiting adjudication
  • School detention, a form of punishment used in schools

Film and television

  • Detention (2003 film), an American action film directed by Sidney J. Furie
  • Detention (2010 film), an American horror film starring Preston Jones and David Carradine
  • Detention (2011 film), an American horror film directed by Joseph Kahn and starring Josh Hutcherson
  • Detention (2019 film), a Taiwanese horror film set during the White Terror, based on the video game of the same name
  • Detention (American TV series), a 1999–2000 American animated TV series
  • Detention (Taiwanese TV series), a 2020 Taiwanese TV series based on the video game
  • "Detention" (Cold Case episode), an episode of the television series Cold Case
  • Detention of the Dead, 2012 comedy horror film

Other uses

  • Detention (video game), a Taiwanese horror game set during the White Terror
  • "Detention", a song by Melanie Martinez from her 2019 album K-12
  • Detention, Tasmania, a locality in Australia

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Detention
  • All pages with titles containing Detention
  • Custody (disambiguation)
  • Detention center (disambiguation)
  • Detonation (disambiguation)
  • Involuntary commitment
  • Prison


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