Synonyms of work camp

work camp

noun

as in concentration camp

Related Words

• concentration camp
• labor camp
• prison camp
• big house
• bull pen
• jail
• prison
• pen
• penitentiary
• stalag
• brig
• tank
• lockup
• stockade
• calaboose
• cage
• gulag
• cooler
• guardroom
• coop
• hock
• jug
• slammer
• jailhouse
• stir
• cell
• can
• clink
• bastille
• hoosegow
• bridewell
• pokey
• joint
• tolbooth
• ward
• nick
• quod
• slam
• hold
• guardhouse
• block
• keep
• reform school
• hole
• hulk(s)
• training school
• glasshouse
• dungeon
• reformatory
• oubliette

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of work camp

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

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

Penny is taken away, and Murphy winds up at a prisoner work camp led by the baseball-loving, vaguely sadistic warden Clancy (Russell Crowe). — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2026