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prison camp

NOUN
detention camp
Synonyms


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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

He is being held in a minimum security federal prison camp in Montgomery, Alabama, with a release date in September of next year.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 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




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