The tactics amounted, said Norman Siegel, a civil rights lawyer, to "preventative detention."

More recently, Australian parliaments have preferred the practice of applying preventative and indefinite detention to any criminal who meets specific conditions, rather than to named criminals.

Punishment should be motivated by doctrines of deterrence, correction and preventative detention.

None of these are necessarily benign, but they beat the heck out of preventative detention.

Notwithstanding this, both state and federal preventative detention and federal control orders may still be open to a Constitutional challenge.

He was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum term available under Norwegian law at the time, to be followed by ten years of preventative detention.

Put them in preventative detention?

You and your senior officers will be put under preventative detention.

Madjitey and some members of the PMFJ were arrested and put in preventative detention.

In El Salvador, a person accused of a major crime is typically held in jail in "preventative detention" until the trial begins.