prison camp

noun

Definition of prison campnext
as in concentration camp

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Recent Examples of prison camp The Justice Department moved Maxwell from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas last August. — Stephen Groves, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026 The former circus performer actually dreamed up the exercises that would become pilates while interned in a prison camp. — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 20 May 2026 In 2025, Maxwell, Epstein's associate, was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas. — Maegan Vazquez The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2026 She was subsequently sentenced to prison for her role in a years-long telemarketing scheme that the government said defrauded innocent people across the country, and after serving two years and nine months at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, she was released in December 2025. — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 4 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prison camp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
  1. concentration camp
  2. labor camp
  3. work camp
  4. jail
  5. bull pen
Noun
  • Her parents arrived in America with her older sister in 1947 after getting liberated from Auschwitz concentration camp and losing most of their family in the Holocaust.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2026
  • Maryland is home to a large Jewish community, many of whom had significant numbers of relatives who were butchered by the SS in concentration camps.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026
Definition of concentration camp
Noun
  • Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
    — Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of labor camp
Noun
  • An inmate who walked away from a Nevada County work camp on Independence Day was captured in Tijuana by Mexican authorities, said state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials on Monday.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
  • Mike Braun opened the Speedway Slammer at an Indiana prison, Jim Pillen opened the Cornhusker Clink at a Nebraska work camp, and Jeff Landry opened the Louisiana Lockup in a disused wing of Angola penitentiary.
    — Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
Definition of work camp
Noun
  • Young is being held in the Wyandotte County Detention Center on a $500,000 bond, according to the jail’s inmate listing.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026
  • That includes more than $1 billion to renovate the troubled Rice Street jail and a $300 million commitment to building a new hospital in southern Fulton County.
    — Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 16 July 2026
Definition of jail
Noun
  • With the bullpen overworked from a busy week — which featured a doubleheader Wednesday — manager Craig Counsell said Friday wasn’t the time to be aggressive.
    — Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • Opposing starters are going deep, and bullpens are staying well rested.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of bull pen

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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 19 Jul. 2026.

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