prison camp

noun

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as in concentration camp

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Recent Examples of prison camp By that time, Maxwell had been moved from a federal women’s facility in Tallahassee to a lower-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas. — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026 Navalna is now in a prison camp in a village near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan. — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 The dour Dostoyevsky probably didn’t mean this as a compliment to human nature; the line appears in a book, The House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp. — Literary Hub, 15 July 2026 Unlike the public perception often created by movies and television, daily life at a federal prison camp revolves around work assignments, educational programming, treatment, and institutional responsibilities. — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for prison camp
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  1. concentration camp
  2. labor camp
  3. work camp
  4. jail
  5. bull pen
Noun
  • This absence drives Shimoda to unearth historical records like FBI files; to visit Manzanar, the concentration camp his grandfather was sent to in Missouri; and to travel to his grandfather’s ancestral homeland in Japan.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
  • By 1941, Thyssen tried to flee from the Nazis, but was caught and sent to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of concentration camp
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  • Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
    — Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of labor camp
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  • Vertical is distributing the Depression-era film, in which Hawke plays a widower who is separated from his daughter when he gets sent to a brutal work camp.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Referenced as harkening back to classics such as William Friedkin’s Sorcerer and John Huston’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Weight is set in 1933 Oregon as Samuel Murphy (Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of work camp
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  • As an alternative to jail time, the federal prosecutors suggested a year of probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,000 fine.
    — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
  • With O’Hare at the helm, the county has redistricted, gone from meeting four times to once a month, privatized rent and utility assistance, reduced the number of polling locations, and seen a steady stream of jail inmate deaths continue.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of jail
Noun
  • With the bullpen overworked from a busy week — which featured a doubleheader Wednesday — manager Craig Counsell said Friday wasn’t the time to be aggressive.
    — Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • Opposing starters are going deep, and bullpens are staying well rested.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of bull pen

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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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