The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GULAG
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More clues leading to the result GULAG
- Shut up about regularly full prison system
- Soul so lacking in quiet place of detention
- Prison camp starts to give up inmate
- Joke about unusual, empty prison camp
- Labour’s forced here to trail behind grand upper class
- Camp’s untypical after vacation, shrouded in silence
- Odd bits of grub given to prisoner in his camp?
- Russian can lift up silver
- Where guests were forced to drink up, necking last bit of vodka?
- Camp wisecrack about ungainly legging tops
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The straight part
We know that "place of detention" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case place of detention = gulag.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GULAG mean?
GULAG noun- A prison camp.
- The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.
- To force into this prison or a similar system.