prison camp

Example Sentences

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His father fought in World War II and spent more than three years in a Japanese prison camp, after which he returned to Malaya and later settled in the south of England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 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

Navy’s Guantanamo Bay base and prison camp in Cuba.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2024

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

I began to imagine the entire town was some sort of bizarre experimental prison camp without walls—a punishment center where criminals were sentenced to living only with other criminals.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos