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
The detention camp contract at Fort Bliss, which could eventually hold 5,000 people, was awarded to a consortium of firms led by a company on the military contracting list for over $1 billion.
From Salon • Oct. 2, 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
Slugger and Nappy were sent to a detention camp in the South; and that for the time being was the last the Rovers heard of them.
From The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine by Stratemeyer, Edward
