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stalag

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Recent Examples of stalag German shepherds seemed to patrol every yard, as if guarding some suburban stalag. — Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026 To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays. — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017 There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II. — Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011

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During that period, more than one million Kazakhs died in famine, while roughly two million people were imprisoned or deported to gulags on politically motivated charges.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026
Stalin was also targeting Polish Catholics, and thousands of these prisoners also survived the gulag.

— Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026

Definition of gulag

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The data, compiled by ICE and processed by a UC Berkeley Law School initiative, sheds light on how the agency has operated in Sacramento, where dozens of arrests have taken place downtown and through administrative transfers at prisons.

— Mathew Miranda July 9, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
One of them, a 25-year-old Antioch man, is serving a prison sentence in an unrelated Walnut Creek shooting.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 10 July 2026

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At the time, Epstein was serving his 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County stockade but was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his office under a work-release program his attorneys had negotiated.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.

— Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 22 Mar. 2026

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Two years ago, a judge freed Anthony Bailey after 27 years in the federal penitentiary, giving him a second chance at life.

— Carrie Johnson, NPR, 23 June 2026
After a federal jury voted to convict him in early 2024, Hernández was sent to a notorious high-security penitentiary in West Virginia to serve his time.

— Keri Blakinger, ProPublica, 11 June 2026

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Heritage Village includes an 1881 two-cell calaboose from Mokena, the 1856 Wells Corner one-room schoolhouse from Homer Glen, the 1863 Greenho farmhouse from Crest Hill, the 1881 Wabash railroad depot from Symerton and a Lockport smokehouse.

— Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2022
Lachenais was arrested and secured in the local calaboose, but a vigilance committee descended upon the jail and tore Lachenais out of his cell.

— Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020

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In addition, investigators working for Duncan’s legal team interviewed a jailhouse informant who recanted his earlier trial testimony that Duncan had confessed to the crime.

— Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 29 June 2026
Watkins told me in our jailhouse interview in 2018 that Cherica Adams was actually the fifth person he had been hired to kill.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 June 2026

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Published after her death at age 15 in a concentration camp, the diary became a classic of Holocaust literature and remains widely read.

— Frank DiGiacomo, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2026
More than 250 were documented to have died in concentration camps.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2026

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