prison camp

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His father fought in World War II and spent more than three years in a Japanese prison camp, after which he returned to Malaya and later settled in the south of England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 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

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

Navy’s Guantanamo Bay base and prison camp in Cuba.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2024

Indeed, just two people other than Shin are known to have escaped from any political prison camp in North Korea and made it to the West.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden