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prison camp

NOUN
detention camp
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On May 4, 1945, at Gunskirchen, a Nazi prison camp in Austria, Edith was found by U.S. soldiers in a heap of people dead or dying.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

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

Dmitry Luksha built up muscles breaking rocks in a Belarusian prison camp, put to work alongside men convicted of murder and drug smuggling.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2024

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

For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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