youth detention centre

English

Alternative forms

• youth detention center

Noun

youth detention centre (plural youth detention centres)

1. A secure residential facility for young people, often termed juvenile delinquents, awaiting court hearings and/or placement in long-term care facilities and programs.

Synonyms

• juvenile hall
• juvie (colloquial)

Translations

secure residential facility for young people

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (mainland China) 少年管教所 (shàonián guǎnjiàosuǒ), (other Chinese-speaking regions) 少年感化院 (shàonián gǎnhuàyuàn), 少年教養所／少年教养所, 少年教养所 (shàonián jiàoyǎngsuǒ), 少年拘留所 (shàonián jūliúsuǒ)

• Finnish: nuorisokoti, koulukoti
• German: Jugendgefängnis (de) n, Jugendstrafanstalt (de) f
• Hungarian: fiatalkorúak börtöne, javítóintézet (hu)
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• Kazakh: жастар кампаниясы (jastar kampaniäsy)
• Portuguese: reformatório m
• Russian: колония для несовершеннолетних f (kolonija dlja nesoveršennoletnix)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: สถานพินิจ (sà-tǎan-pí-nít)

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