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Recent Examples of prison camp
There are signs that FSA is doing what Congress intended as prison camps have seen their populations decrease.
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Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Numerous Soviet enterprises, operating under dozens of ministries, used POWs contracted out by prison camp officials.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
This would move more people out of expensive prison camps and into prerelease custody, a much lower cost option.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Some experts on this historical time period say Trump's mass deportation plans have echoes of the widespread internments during World War II, in which more than 100,000 Japanese Americans, many of them U.S. citizens like Takei's family, were forcibly detained in prison camps.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Numerous Soviet enterprises, operating under dozens of ministries, used POWs contracted out by prison camp officials.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
This would move more people out of expensive prison camps and into prerelease custody, a much lower cost option.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Some experts on this historical time period say Trump's mass deportation plans have echoes of the widespread internments during World War II, in which more than 100,000 Japanese Americans, many of them U.S. citizens like Takei's family, were forcibly detained in prison camps.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
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When her husband was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, Girone was eight months pregnant, Claims Conference said.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
28 Feb. 2025
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And on the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, run by a Nazi puppet regime, architect Bogdan Bogdanović crafted perhaps the most optimistic acknowledgment of the will to overcome the 20th century’s darkest hours.—
Michael Allen,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2025
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un maintains an iron grip through the threat and reality of labor camps and murder along with a fanatical propaganda personality cult.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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An additional million had been thrown into arbitrary detention or packed off to penal colonies and labor camps.—
Gary J. Bass,
Foreign Affairs,
14 June 2018
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And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.—
Patrick Wilson,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Jan. 2025
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Nine years later, Lowell, which consists of three facilities — the main unit, the annex and a work camp — spends 46 percent less per inmate on healthcare and 36 percent less on education.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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Denver Broncos linebackers coach Michael Wilhoite was arrested in Denver on a charge of second-degree assault on a peace officer on Sunday, jail records showed.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
24 Feb. 2025
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Last June, surveillance footage of Chop fighting a man in jail leaked.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2025
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Marcus Stroman reported to camp later than other pitchers and stated his refusal to pitch out of the bullpen.—
Daniel R. Epstein,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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With the six-man rotation no longer in play for Opening Day the Red Sox have three bullpen jobs up for grabs, and there are probably seven or eight guys with a plausible path for a spot.—
Mac Cerullo,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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