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prison camp

noun as in detention camp

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“There’s a certain amount of shame about being put in a prison camp,” Furutani said.

Under dictator Joseph Stalin, the prison camps, or Gulag, were full of victims who had been snitched on by their fellow citizens.

From BBC

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

Written in 1946 by a young French composer released from a Nazi prison camp, the hourlong song cycle for very dramatic soprano and piano reimagines Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde as exotic Peruvian lovers.

Conditions in his prison camp, IK 17, were tough, locked up with "child rapists and murderers" as he once put it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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