prison camp
noun
1
: a camp for the confinement of reasonably trustworthy prisoners usually employed on government projects
2
: a camp for prisoners of war or political prisoners
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Rounded up and imprisoned in barbed wire prison camps in some of the most hellish places and most desolate places in the country.
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Abc News, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2024
Long lines formed at noon outside some polling stations, including in Moscow and St. Petersburg, after allies of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who died last month in an Arctic prison camp, called on people to protest Putin’s election by turning up at that time.
—Bloomberg, Fortune Europe, 18 Mar. 2024
Captured by brigands, the immigrants are herded into a remote Libyan prison camp where they are tormented and tortured.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
Just last month, Putin’s foremost civilian rival, Alexei Navalny, turned up dead in the frigid Siberian prison camp to which he’d been consigned after surviving the Kremlin’s attempt to poison him.
—Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2024
One thing that will strain their bond is figuring out the best way to help the cause from within the prison camp.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
Navalny embodied the resistance to Putin’s regime more than any other Russian opposition figure, and his death at 47 in the prison camp was seen as a watershed signal that no dissent will be tolerated in Russia as Putin shifts toward a highly centralized, deeply repressive totalitarian regime.
—Mariana Alfaro, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
Life within the prison camp was difficult due to overcrowding, poor wages and lack of privacy.
—Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
In other photos, Holmes was seen being held affectionally by her husband, Billy Evans, who also brought their daughter, who is about to turn 1, for the visit at the minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
Abc News, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2024
Long lines formed at noon outside some polling stations, including in Moscow and St. Petersburg, after allies of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who died last month in an Arctic prison camp, called on people to protest Putin’s election by turning up at that time.
—Bloomberg, Fortune Europe, 18 Mar. 2024
Captured by brigands, the immigrants are herded into a remote Libyan prison camp where they are tormented and tortured.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
Just last month, Putin’s foremost civilian rival, Alexei Navalny, turned up dead in the frigid Siberian prison camp to which he’d been consigned after surviving the Kremlin’s attempt to poison him.
—Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2024
One thing that will strain their bond is figuring out the best way to help the cause from within the prison camp.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
Navalny embodied the resistance to Putin’s regime more than any other Russian opposition figure, and his death at 47 in the prison camp was seen as a watershed signal that no dissent will be tolerated in Russia as Putin shifts toward a highly centralized, deeply repressive totalitarian regime.
—Mariana Alfaro, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
Life within the prison camp was difficult due to overcrowding, poor wages and lack of privacy.
—Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
In other photos, Holmes was seen being held affectionally by her husband, Billy Evans, who also brought their daughter, who is about to turn 1, for the visit at the minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prison%20camp. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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