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prison camp

NOUN
detention camp
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While other memoirists have described the concentrated essence of Soviet life as that of a prison camp, Freidenberg discovered it in the siege—“the siege of the human being,” as she put it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

This is a prison camp that does not house sex offenders, nor those with the 20-year sentence Maxwell has.

From Slate • Aug. 14, 2025

"I'm absolutely devastated because all I see is what is like a prison wall at the end of my garden, so it is like being in a prison camp," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025

Written in 1946 by a young French composer released from a Nazi prison camp, the hourlong song cycle for very dramatic soprano and piano reimagines Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde as exotic Peruvian lovers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

It had me in a girls’ prison camp in the Florida Everglades.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd




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