prison camp

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Recent Examples of prison camp But some of the women who served time in Bryan remain skeptical that the prison camp has been transformed. Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026 Bale was 12 when Steven Spielberg cast him in the incredibly challenging role of Jim, the son of a wealthy British family who gets separated during World War II and ends up in a Japanese prison camp. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026 The resisters were transferred from a prison camp to a more restrictive jail, Tulelake Camp, located more than 10 miles away, said Ron Nakano, with the Marysville JACL, noting that the two camps are distinct but often confused. Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026 In the interview, the British businessman addressed Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer from a federal prison in Florida to a federal prison camp in Texas over the summer. James Longman, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prison camp
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Noun
  • Concentration Camps, Hitler And The Allies One of the highlights of the exhibition are Miller’s war photographs, particularly those of the concentration camps and Hitler’s apartment.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • After much of the population has been sent to concentration camps, those who remain fight back.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
    Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The labor camp, already on the National Register of Historic Places, was run by Tom Collins, to whom Steinbeck dedicated his 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Grapes of Wrath.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • And Nazi officials had promised Auschwitz’s Buna work camp thousands of skilled Jewish laborers – a quota that was not met because of the Rosenstrasse Jews’ release.
    Danielle Wirsansky, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
  • An inmate serving a 10-year sentence for first-degree burglary walked away from a state prison work camp Monday night in El Dorado County, state officials said.
    Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • She is being held on $500,000 bond, according to jail records reviewed by PEOPLE on May 30.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
  • On Friday, a judge sentenced him to 60 days in jail, followed by 22 months of probation.
    Nick Lentz, CBS News, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • Boyd threw a bullpen session Tuesday and is scheduled to throw an up-down bullpen Friday at Wrigley Field.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
  • The permutations of the starting nine have been forced by all sorts of different factors: injuries, hot hitting, slumps, the opposing starting pitcher, the opposing bullpen personnel, etc.
    Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 22 May 2026

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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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