prison camp

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Recent Examples of prison camp Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence at a prison camp in Texas, where she was transferred last summer from a prison in Florida. CBS News, 2 Dec. 2025 Amid all this, Joyce has been on a mission to rescue Hopper, who survived the machine explosion from Season 3 and is being held in a Russian prison camp. Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025 From silently protesting at Pushkin Square to being exiled in a brutal prison camp, this book is a powerful tribute to the Russian dissidents who fought for freedom and justice while trying to evade the KGB. Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for prison camp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
Noun
  • Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, months before the end of the war.
    Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The Schloss family was betrayed and sent to concentration camps in 1944.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Some paid dearly for their dissent by losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The novel was inspired by Steinbeck’s journalism work, particularly for The San Francisco News, which had commissioned him to cover migrant labor camps in the Salinas valley.
    Paul Slovak September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At its peak, the prison held 3,000 inmates in 30 work camps across the island.
    Maya Duclay, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The officials are using the existing minimum security prison work camp in McCook, located around 210 miles west of Lincoln.
    Filip Timotija, The Hill, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • According to online jail records, his bail was set at $250,000.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The cost of Kansas City’s temporary jail facility could jump by nearly $4 million as a city committee recommend additional funding and waiving environmental building standards to keep the project on track for completion before the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
    Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • With pitching questions in both the starting rotation and the bullpen plus a huge gap at third base, New York will have plenty of spots to fill in the upcoming offseason.
    Drew VonScio, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Not even necessarily for the beneficial bullpen vibes, though those wouldn’t hurt.
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025

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

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