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A diet seen to be wrong for people held in custody (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

detainees

'people held in custody' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'a diet seen to be wrong' is the wordplay.
'to be wrong' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'is wrong' mean this).
'a'+'diet'+'seen'='adietseen'
'adietseen' is an anagram of 'DETAINEES'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Another definition for detainees that I've seen is " See Danite among those confined by authorities".)

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