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prison camp

noun as in detention camp

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While her fellow inmates were confined to their dormitories after breakfast, Maxwell met with several visitors in the federal prison camp’s chapel, according to people familiar with the matter.

During World War II, the British and U.S. military hid money, maps and tools in Monopoly board games and sent them via fake charities to soldiers and airmen held in German prison camps.

Russian officials and prison authorities have said it occurred suddenly after he collapsed during exercise at a prison camp above the Arctic Circle, where he was serving out a lengthy sentence.

Federal troops are wreaking havoc in the streets, people are being abducted and sent to prison camps — or disappeared entirely — and the military is executing orders to murder foreign civilians on the high seas.

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Some of the most severe human rights violations were discovered to be taking place at the country's notorious political prison camps, where people can be locked up for life and "disappeared".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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