prison camp
noun
1
: a camp for the confinement of reasonably trustworthy prisoners usually employed on government projects
2
: a camp for prisoners of war or political prisoners
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Rowland served 10 months in a federal prison camp after pleading guilty in 2004 to one count of conspiracy to steal honest services.
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Staff and Wire Reports, Boston Herald, 29 May 2025
At that time, the race course had been turned into a Confederate prison camp for Union soldiers.
—Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Many other Soviet citizens were sent to the gulag, a grim network of prison camps, spread across the world’s largest country.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
They were sent to the new communist government’s re-education prison camps and forced to do hard labor.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 May 2025
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Staff and Wire Reports, Boston Herald, 29 May 2025
At that time, the race course had been turned into a Confederate prison camp for Union soldiers.
—Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Many other Soviet citizens were sent to the gulag, a grim network of prison camps, spread across the world’s largest country.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
They were sent to the new communist government’s re-education prison camps and forced to do hard labor.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for prison camp
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prison%20camp. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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