stockade

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Native American-related markers generally frame the Indigenous people in terms of the Europeans who displaced them, such as a Juniana County marker about “a stockade built about 1755 to protect settlers from Indian marauder.”

From Seattle Times

The term has also been synonymous with prisoner of war camps and stockades.

From Fox News

Mr. Downey spent three years in the military, much of it in the stockade, and said he began writing there to pass the time.

From Washington Post

While in Palm Beach sheriff’s custody, Epstein was allowed to stay in an isolated cell at the county’s minimum security stockade, where he roamed freely and watched television.

From Seattle Times

In America's collective stockade of the mind, activism for peace is an aberration, while acceptance of the war state is second nature.

From Salon