prison camp

Example Sentences

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She began serving her term in May 2023, at a women’s prison camp outside Houston.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2025

Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia, his parents fled from imminent Nazi occupation when he was still a baby and went to Singapore, where his father died in a Japanese prison camp.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

Russian officials and prison authorities have said it occurred suddenly after he collapsed during exercise at a prison camp above the Arctic Circle, where he was serving out a lengthy sentence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 17, 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

It had me in a girls’ prison camp in the Florida Everglades.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd