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In 1942, as an act of solidarity, Noguchi voluntarily interned at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona, one of several prison camps built to confine Japanese citizens and American citizens of Japanese descent on the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Though he had been banned from baseball since 1989, served five months in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion, was a known philanderer and a largely unsuccessful gambler, Rose remained one of the most beloved former athletes in the nation.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
Tarantino, 61, is being held in a minimum security federal prison camp in Montgomery, Alabama, with a release date in August of next year.
—CBS News, 23 June 2024
But Ku was taking a huge risk: if North Korean border guards caught him, he could be beaten, sent to a prison camp, or even executed.
—Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2016
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Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Though he had been banned from baseball since 1989, served five months in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion, was a known philanderer and a largely unsuccessful gambler, Rose remained one of the most beloved former athletes in the nation.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
Tarantino, 61, is being held in a minimum security federal prison camp in Montgomery, Alabama, with a release date in August of next year.
—CBS News, 23 June 2024
But Ku was taking a huge risk: if North Korean border guards caught him, he could be beaten, sent to a prison camp, or even executed.
—Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2016
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Watch on Max The Zone of Interest In 1943, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) was the commandant of Auschwitz who spent his days playing god with the lives of the concentration camp’s innocent prisoners.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024
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The Hidden Book, by Kirsty Manning Kirsty Manning’s compassionate novel is inspired by a real World War II covert mission in 1940s Austria to smuggle out photographic evidence of the treatment of prisoners at Mauthausen concentration camp.Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
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In July 1942, the Nazis ordered Anne’s older sister, Margot, to return to Germany and report to a labor camp.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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At the labor camp, guards woke him up every two hours every night for four years.Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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Apes together are strong enough to break out of an abusive medical-testing laboratory, establish a new community of their own in the California woods, fend off humans who want to siphon their resources, and fight back against a rogue military unit that has trapped apes in work camps.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
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Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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Thousands of indigenous Mayan people in Guatemala rejected the construction of a Santa Muerte prayer center, allegedly financed by gang members imprisoned in a local jail.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
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Pretrial release allows people to hold down jobs and care for their families instead of awaiting trial in jail.Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Scott would fortify the backend of New York's bullpen.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Since removing Flaherty in the second, Roberts had managed his bullpen ruthlessly.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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