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Recent Examples of prison camp
Moving migrants in immigration detention awaiting deportation to an offshore prison camp raises novel legal questions.
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Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Numerous Soviet enterprises, operating under dozens of ministries, used POWs contracted out by prison camp officials.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
According to prison camp and other historical records, Hansen died June 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 407.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
The Russian dissident died under mysterious circumstances in a prison camp above the Arctic Circle last February, alone, still fighting.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
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Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Numerous Soviet enterprises, operating under dozens of ministries, used POWs contracted out by prison camp officials.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
According to prison camp and other historical records, Hansen died June 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 407.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
The Russian dissident died under mysterious circumstances in a prison camp above the Arctic Circle last February, alone, still fighting.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
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These camps remind many Americans of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War II.—
Tom Zirpoli,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Apr. 2025
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My wife, who was born in Hamburg, remembers being taken to the former Neuengamme concentration camp with her school as a teenager.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The novelist Daniel Kehlmann became interested in film as a child, the son of a father who survived a Nazi labor camp and went on to direct movies and theater.—
David Segal,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
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And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.—
Patrick Wilson,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Jan. 2025
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Nine years later, Lowell, which consists of three facilities — the main unit, the annex and a work camp — spends 46 percent less per inmate on healthcare and 36 percent less on education.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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More than 21,000 people died in local jails and state prisons in four years, according to records the government has hidden from public view since 2021.—
Gina Barton,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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David Castro, with a long history of drug use, has been in Santa Clara County jail awaiting trial since he was arrested in 2023.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2025
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A number of qualities have led to the success of the bullpen, with velocity and pitch shapes being two of them.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Royals reliever John Schreiber came in from the bullpen.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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