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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Maxwell was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after being interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July.
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Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Takei and his family were eventually moved to a prison camp in Arkansas.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Soon after the interview, she was quietly transferred to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025
There was no forgetting the notorious Confederate prison camps like Andersonville and Salisbury, the Confederate pogrom at Fort Pillow, and the fact that the South had seceded in the first place to perpetuate and expand an elite-serving economy based on human chattel.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2025
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Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Takei and his family were eventually moved to a prison camp in Arkansas.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Soon after the interview, she was quietly transferred to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025
There was no forgetting the notorious Confederate prison camps like Andersonville and Salisbury, the Confederate pogrom at Fort Pillow, and the fact that the South had seceded in the first place to perpetuate and expand an elite-serving economy based on human chattel.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prison%20camp. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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