How to Use prison camp in a Sentence

prison camp

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  • The few dozen Unangans captured by the Japanese in 1942 were sent to prison camps, where many died.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
  • The judge recommended Pepion serve his time at the federal prison camp in Sheridan.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Ouk’s food-scavenging partner had located her grandmother at another prison camp.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2018
  • During the war, Willi was drafted into the Germany army and spent three years in prison camps, while Margarete slept virtually every night in a bomb shelter.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The remedy should begin with Mr. Kim releasing the inmates from his political prison camps, in order to shut down the gulag forever.
    — Claudia Rosett, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • The announcement comes just hours after Trump welcomed three Americans home from North Korea where they were detained in the country’s brutal prison camps.
    — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 10 May 2018
  • All of Cuba is a prison camp and has been for 62 years.
    — Leora R. Levy, WSJ, 21 July 2021
  • Then the Taft prison camp philosopher sidled up to him at the gym one day.
    — New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • By that time, the Reds had heard about the prison camp and mass grave at Kalevankangas.
    — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • The prison camp is located just a few miles from the front line — and about 12 miles from the city of Donetsk.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022
  • He has been sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison camp.
    — Raga Justin, Dallas News, 29 June 2021
  • The bathroom shower was not fit for a prison camp and the 15-year-old kitchen felt cramped and dated.
    — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • The white boys really turned the prison camp into a chain gang.
    — Winfred Rembert, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • Those children are not sent to prison camps to lie on concrete floors.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2018
  • He was held captive in a Chinese prison camp for 27 months.
    — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2020
  • By the time the march ended some 70 miles later at a prison camp, thousands had died.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
  • For the last months of his detention in 1970, he was moved to a prison camp at Oropos, north of Athens.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Some of these prison camps have been deep inside Syria, guarded by the SDF.
    — Fox News, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Stockdale was asked, what was the characteristic of the ones who did not make it out of the prison camp?
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
  • She alone from her prison camp was selected as part of the same trade that freed her husband.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • For 13 of their first 19 months as a married couple, Richard Koch was locked in a German prison camp.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The plane didn’t have Red Cross markings or anything, so she got shot at, was in a prison camp in the Philippines for three years.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
  • But last June, a court rejected his appeal, clearing the way for him to be moved to a prison camp.
    — Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • He was convicted by a Russian court in 2020 and sentenced to nine years in a prison camp.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 28 July 2022
  • He was convicted by a Russian court in mid-2020 and sentenced to nine years in a prison camp.
    — Stephanie Ferguson, ABC News, 8 July 2022
  • Almost half the 150 people or so in Loretto’s prison camp showed up for the classes, said Ball.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • He has just been condemned on appeal by the Supreme Court of Karelia to thirteen years in a prison camp with a harsh regime.
    — Olivier Rolin, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2020
  • But last month, a court rejected his appeal against the sentence, clearing the way for him to be moved to a prison camp.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 16 July 2021
  • Rounded up and imprisoned in barbed wire prison camps in some of the most hellish places and most desolate places in the country.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2024

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