detention camp
Example Sentences
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Escape attempts from the largest detention camp in northeast Syria, Al Hol, have increased this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
These long-standing facilities were joined this month by a slapdash detention camp in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
From Salon • Jul. 21, 2025
Morey’s great-grandfather, who came here in 1892, was sent to a detention camp in Tuna Canyon where the feds kept the foreign-born it regarded as security risks.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025
In 2008, Judge Urbina ordered the release of a number of prisoners being held at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, including 17 from the Uyghur Muslim minority in western China.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024
The story of a young Englishman's escape from a detention camp and flight across Germany.
From A History of the Third French Republic by Wright, C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad)
