prison camp
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While other memoirists have described the concentrated essence of Soviet life as that of a prison camp, Freidenberg discovered it in the siege—“the siege of the human being,” as she put it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
She began serving her term in May 2023, at a women’s prison camp outside Houston.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2025
This is a prison camp that does not house sex offenders, nor those with the 20-year sentence Maxwell has.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2025
Dmitry Luksha built up muscles breaking rocks in a Belarusian prison camp, put to work alongside men convicted of murder and drug smuggling.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
He and Prokofiev were both mercifully spared the treatment accorded writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose criticisms of Soviet authority in his books and public statements landed him in a Siberian prison camp.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
