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

She began serving her term in May 2023, at a women’s prison camp outside Houston.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2025

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

Dmitry Luksha built up muscles breaking rocks in a Belarusian prison camp, put to work alongside men convicted of murder and drug smuggling.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2024

It was forbidden to enter the prison camp, but Lulu persuaded a Japanese commandant to let her see her brother.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly