prison camp

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Recent Examples of prison camp Just a week later, Maxwell was moved to a more permissive prison camp in Texas. NBC news, 21 Dec. 2025 Maxwell was convicted in late 2021 and is serving a 20-year prison sentence, though she was moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after she was interviewed over the summer by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2025 She was interviewed by the Justice Department’s second-in-command in July and was soon afterward moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas. Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 17 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 See All Example Sentences for prison camp
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Noun
  • Many did not experience concentration camps but were forced to flee villages and towns as Nazi forces advanced, destroying homes and killing millions.
    Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • In the Czech Republic, a candlelight march is planned for the evening in Terezin at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt.
    Vanessa Gera, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In another extraordinary anecdote, Chang describes hitchhiking her way across remote China to a labor camp her father was being held in, to lift his spirits.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 13 Jan. 2026
  • People were forced into labor camps in the countryside; schools and temples were turned into prisons; and paddy fields were used as execution sites.
    Susan Young, PEOPLE, 14 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The family was forced into a cattle car packed full of mostly Jewish people, forced to go to what was supposed to be a work camp at Auschwitz in Poland, but was an extermination camp.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • According to county jail records, Sutherland was arrested shortly after midnight Monday morning, with bail set at $50,000.
    City News Service, Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Arechiga did not enter a plea at his arraignment Monday in the jail courtroom in Santa Ana.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Cubs also reconstructed their bullpen, by adding right-handed free agent relievers Phil Maton, Hunter Harvey, and Jacob Webb, in addition to lefty Hoby Milner.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The Braves further bolstered their bullpen Sunday, re-signing veteran reliever Tyler Kinley to a one-year deal. Kinley, 34, will earn $3 million this season.
    Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 11 Jan. 2026

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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.

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