Even the immigration service has expressed some doubts about the law on mandatory detention.

The point of the competition was to help lawyers get publicity for their causes and I had been working a lot on administrative detention.

There's no time limit on detention under the immigration act.

The Justice Department does not keep historical data on juvenile detention.

There was a benign vagueness to the law on detention before the 1984 Act.

For the most part, he said, the chain's written policies on detention "were good."

The most contentious is a measure to modify the limits on detention in serious crimes.

He repeatedly reminded the police about the legal time limit on detention and his right to see a lawyer, with little effect.

The edict, issued last week, changed the rules on preventive detention.

Two days later, they also adopted a very repressive law on detention and use of military weapons.