work camp

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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 See All Example Sentences for work camp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
Noun
  • Thousands of businesses had their windows broken and vandalized and more than 30,000 men were sent to concentration camps.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Said to have helped secure the release of thousands of concentration camp prisoners, Kersten is traveling to Oslo in the hope of winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Each experiment ended, or is still ending, in a famine, a labor camp, or both.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The Nazis conscripted her father and forced him to work at a labor camp.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Holmes is serving an 11-year sentence for defrauding Theranos investors at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, roughly a two-hour drive from Austin.
    — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026
  • His attorney requested that he be incarcerated at FPC Yankton, a minimum-security federal prison camp in South Dakota.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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