Synonyms for detained
de·tained

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1. List of paraphrases for "detained":

   arrested, detainees, detainee, detention, imprisoned, inmate, held, prisoners, inmates, incarcerated, apprehended, prisoner, arrest, detaining, custody, captured, stopped, owned, detains, arresting, jailed, detain, impounded, interned, trapped

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1. Elba Pope:

   They should be fired, regardless to what happened prior, there is no reason why a child should be pepper-sprayed when she is already detained in handcuffs in a car.

2. Andrew Jezic:

   He was stopped at the border and detained by ICE, he was detained for 12 days, but then ICE made the discretionary decision to simply let him go. They put him on a plane in Texas and his father had to pay for the ticket. His father picked him up at BWI Airport and he's been in this country with the full awareness of ICE.

3. Lynly Egyes:

   Roxsana Hernandez needed medical care and yet she was cleared to be incarcerated. At numerous times throughout her days in immigration enforcement custody, the people she was detained with pleaded for her to receive medical care, it is clear from these records that if immigration enforcement believes that their sole duty is to shuffle people into immigration prisons, that is what they'll do. As a result, the consequences for those who are either sick or who get sick while in their custody can be fatal.

4. Tim Irwin:

   The three fled Mathiang along with other humanitarian actors and were detained in Pagak upon arrival.

5. Wendy Sherman:

   It is absolutely incumbent upon our government to do everything we can to make sure Americans are not left behind, and that we bring the Americans who are detained there home, that we find Robert Levinson and bring him home.