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What is protective custody?

What is protective custody? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law enforcement) Lawful confinement of a person or close supervision of his or her movements, on a voluntary or involuntary basis, by authorities in order to safeguard that person from attack or other dangers.
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As a result, he was put into protective custody, given a new identity and so made unavailable to Gardai for questioning.
Valachi entered protective custody and remained in prison until the end of his natural life.
Both girls are now in protective custody and receiving counseling for their ordeal and addiction to the easy money.
Police in Cincinnati have placed in protective custody two children whose mother neglected them to spend as much as 12 hours a day on the Internet.
The victims held in protective custody and in concentration camps numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
It is inevitable that the prisoner's assistance will require any sentence to be served in protective custody.

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