prison 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

He was captured in 2003 and is being held in Guantanamo Bay, the US prison camp in Cuba.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

He is being held in a minimum security federal prison camp in Montgomery, Alabama, with a release date in September of next year.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2024

When Billy Pilgrim’s name was inscribed in the ledger of the prison camp, he was given a number, too, and an iron dogtag in which that number was stamped.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut