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
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
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
When Billy Pilgrim’s name was inscribed in the ledger of the prison camp, he was given a number, too, and an iron dogtag in which that number was stamped.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
