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One man who was a dissident imprisoned in a Soviet gulag—future Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky—had this to say about hearing of Reagan's description of the Soviet Union as an evil empire.
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
In the Soviet Union, dissenting biologists were shipped to the gulag.
—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
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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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
In the Soviet Union, dissenting biologists were shipped to the gulag.
—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
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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Regarding the lack of disciplinary records documenting policy violations, Payne placed blame on prison staff for failure to write Holt up for disciplinary violations.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Oct. 2025
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In August 2024, Lorincz was convicted on the manslaughter charge, and in November, a judge sentenced her to 25 years in prison.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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Portlaoise Prison, which is in the center of Ireland, is a nineteenth-century penitentiary built like a fortress—a one-star establishment, at best.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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If found guilty of a level 5 felony, Sanchez could be imprisoned anywhere from one to six years at an Indiana penitentiary and fined up to $10,000, according to the Indiana Code.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
12 Oct. 2025
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Starting in the 1880s, the city and county each built a series of increasingly spacious jails—and then proceeded to fill them well above capacity each winter.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Oct. 2025
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Grayson has been held in the Macon County jail ahead of his trial.—
Deena Zaru,
ABC News,
20 Oct. 2025
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To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays.—
ROBERT D. McFADDEN,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2017
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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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Sanders had uncovered in 2014 that Rackauckas’ prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies for years had illegally used jailhouse informants to coax confessions from defendants who had attorneys, in violation of their right to counsel.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
30 Sep. 2025
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Court records weren't immediately available in that case, but Luchin admitted to attempting to rob a bank in jailhouse interviews at the time.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
17 Sep. 2025
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Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
28 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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Ghislaine Maxwell, Robert Maxwell's daughter, is currently in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and is serving time at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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After lockup that night, officers moved Dewer and Lamorie from their cells to solitary confinement.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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Hubbell, who appeared in court in red jail garb, will remain in the county lockup.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulag. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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