prison camp

Example Sentences

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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

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

"I'm absolutely devastated because all I see is what is like a prison wall at the end of my garden, so it is like being in a prison camp," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2024

A prison camp isn’t a place for children; it isn’t a place for anyone.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed