All detention home synonyms
de·ten·tion home
D d noun detention home
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
- borstal — In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.
- detention center — A detention center is a sort of prison, for example, a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept while a decision is made about what to do with them.
- house of detention — a place maintained by the civil authorities for persons charged with a crime, and sometimes for witnesses, awaiting trial.