Detention Level

The Detention Level was an area on the Death Star that held numerous detention blocks located on descending sub-levels. Sub-level 0 was the first sub-level, with other sub-levels extending downwards towards the battle station's southern pole. Detention levels were organized around a large, spherical central airway for their sector, from which turbolifts brought in new prisoners and guards.Star Wars: Complete Locations
Detention Levels were not meant to hold prisoners long-term, but rather serve as a stopgap measure until prisoners could be transferred to other Imperial prisons.Ultimate Star Wars Prisoners were kept in the dark, and were then dragged to brightly lit interrogation rooms.
==History==
Detention Block AA-23 on sub-level five was reserved for political prisoners. Cell 2187 was located on AA-23, and was the location where Princess Leia Organa was imprisoned by Darth Vader for suspected Rebel activities in 0 BBY. After rescuing Organa, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and the princess herself were trapped in a garbage masher on this level and nearly crushed to death before being saved by the droids C-3PO and R2-D2. Later, the Detention Level, along with the rest of the Death Star, was destroyed during the Battle of Yavin thanks to Luke.
==Appearances==
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*Age of Rebellion - Grand Moff Tarkin 1 
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*A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy 
*Star Wars: A New Hope junior novelization
*A New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD
*The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight
*Star Wars: Heroes Path
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*Trapped in the Death Star!
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*Star Wars (2020) 18 
*"All Creatures Great and Small" 
*Poe Dameron Annual 2 
===Non-canon appearances===
*Star Wars Epic Yarns: A New Hope
*LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
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==Notes and references==
Category:DS-1 Orbital Battle Station locations