custody
监护权,保管,监护,监管
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plural cus·to·dies.
- : keeping; guardianship; care.
- : the keeping or charge of officers of the law: The car was held in the custody of the police.
- : imprisonment; legal restraint: He was taken into custody.
- : Also called child custody. Law. the right of determining the residence, protection, care, and education of a minor child or children, especially in a divorce or separation.Compare joint custody, sole custody.
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Pauline Binam, a 30-year-old former detainee at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, had been in custody for about two years when she started having irregular menstrual bleeding.
In the spring of 2015, the death of Freddie Gray, 25, from injuries sustained in police custody brought demonstrators into the streets of Baltimore.
Hundreds of protesters gathered, but many of them were immediately taken into custody.
By Simonis’s own estimation, the scientist spent around eight hours in the agents’ custody.
Courts have also had trouble enforcing the orders and continuing to receive information from the government about migrants in its custody, she said.
If she got caught with a shank, they would up her custody level.
While Faal and Njie are in U.S. custody, the whereabouts of the other survivors is unknown.
Parents who want to transfer custody of a child to someone other than a relative must seek permission from a judge.
But until recently, there was no requirement for government agencies to report deaths in police custody.
During two years in Iranian custody, Abdolhamid provided crucial details of how Jundullah operated.
Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?