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Recent Examples of gulag
In the Soviet Union, dissenting biologists were shipped to the gulag.
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
But no serious groundswell of opposition was recorded, even as his main opponent was killed off in a gulag.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
As Solzhenitsyn suggested, writing about the gulag system was verboten in large part because Soviet authorities sought to deny or obfuscate its very existence.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
But no serious groundswell of opposition was recorded, even as his main opponent was killed off in a gulag.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
As Solzhenitsyn suggested, writing about the gulag system was verboten in large part because Soviet authorities sought to deny or obfuscate its very existence.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
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Based on true events, the Gorgona Island prison, 34 miles off the Pacific coast, was once one of the most brutal of tropical penitentiary for murderers, rapists and political prisoners, notorious for its use of torture.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
15 July 2025
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The perspective of the newspapers is also critical because most information about incarceration comes from law enforcement personnel and prison data, which tend to frame prison populations as a singular unit and focus on data instead of people.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
15 July 2025
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Her various occupations, paid and unpaid, included teaching convicts at an area penitentiary and substitute-teaching in junior high.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 June 2025
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At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe Trump had suggested turning Alcatraz back into a penitentiary.—
Heather Knight,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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In an interview with NBC News, Noem pushed back on criticisms of the site’s conditions, insisting the facility exceeds federal standards and disputing characterizations of it as a jail.—
Yezen Saadah,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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As reported in 5280, Richard served 30 days in jail and 60 nights of work release.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
15 July 2025
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There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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Stanley, who is related to the young victim in the 2018 case, confessed to killing Cogswell during a shocking jailhouse interview last week with WBND, the ABC station in South Bend.—
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 July 2025
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Key testimony called into question The prosecution of Davis was largely pinned on Hart’s confession and the testimony of others present when Slone was killed, as well as a jailhouse informant who told police Davis confessed while at the Butler County Jail.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress, but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
3 Sep. 2024
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In late September, Burke, 81, had checked himself into the low-security federal prison camp at Thomson, Illinois, to start a two-year sentence on his corruption case.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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Contraband phones are easy to get into prison camps.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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This as the Florida GOP sold merchandise celebrating the lockup, which features chain-link enclosures the president said could hold some 10,000 people.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
3 July 2025
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The White House similarly promoted the political shock value of sending some immigrants awaiting deportation to a detention lockup in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and others to a megaprison in El Salvador.—
Will Weissert,
Chicago Tribune,
1 July 2025
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