detention camp
Example Sentences
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Escape attempts from the largest detention camp in northeast Syria, Al Hol, have increased this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
The detention camp contract at Fort Bliss, which could eventually hold 5,000 people, was awarded to a consortium of firms led by a company on the military contracting list for over $1 billion.
From Salon • Oct. 2, 2025
Bliss, the U.S. is constructing a new 5,000-bed immigrant detention camp.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2025
Alfred had been arrested and was being held in the Westerbork detention camp in The Netherlands.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025
However, in view of the extraordinary facilities which the detention camp offered for acquiring dangerous diseases, he is certainly to be congratulated on having escaped with one of the least harmful.
From The Enormous Room by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)
