Detention
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The act of keeping back or withholding, either accidentally or by design, a person or thing.
See Detainer.
Detention in a reformatory
as a punishment or measure of prevention, is where a juvenile offender la sentenced to be sent to a reformatory school, to be there detained for a certain period of time.
1 Russ. Crimes, 82.