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He has to live at the detention centre (3)

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I believe the answer is:

ben

'he' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'to live at the detention centre' is the wordplay.
'to live' becomes 'be' ('be' can be a synonym of 'live').
'at' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'centre' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle letter of 'detention' is 'n'.
'be'+'n'='BEN'

'has' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for ben that I've seen before include "High mountain (Scots)" , "inner room in Oban, say" , "A Big London clock tower" , "& 3 Across Epic film" , "Mountain; man's name" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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