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prison camp

noun as in detention camp

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We learned nothing about the overwhelming cost of two wars, the loss of civil liberties… the systematic use of torture in prison camps.

From Time

No charges were ever brought, but she spent the next 15 months being ferried between five different prison camps with barbed wire and watchtowers, during which she was interrogated 19 times and tortured with electric batons.

From Time

In the South, women in prison camps undertook forced labor — building roads, tending crops — alongside their male counterparts.

It’s like a war prison camp with the barbed wires around it.

From Ozy

Millions of peasants who resisted the policy were sent to prison camps.

From Time

The prison camp island nation known as Cuba erupted in celebration.

He was hallucinating he was in a prison camp under the Viet Cong.

Some were as old as Dostoevsky, who wrote his House of the Dead in 1861 after four years in a Siberian prison camp.

Last year, North Korea sentenced an American missionary, Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labor in a prison camp.

He was interrogated by his captors in an underground prison camp.

The cavalry formed a rough prison-camp and we turned in again to wait for daylight.

He was my wingman, we were both shot down on the same mission and were together in prison camp.

The Red Cross provided us with almost everything we got while in prison camp aside from the food from the Germans.

We were none too neat traveling on the train as we were still wearing our old dirty uniforms from prison camp.

The unwritten rule of the prison camp is, whatever one gets the rest all share it, so they were disappointed too.

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

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