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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.
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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
Guantánamo is arguably the most expensive prison camp on earth, with a staff of 1,850 U.S. troops and civilians managing a compound that contains 171 captives, at a cost of $800,000 a year per detainee.
—Carol Rosenberg, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2011
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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
Guantánamo is arguably the most expensive prison camp on earth, with a staff of 1,850 U.S. troops and civilians managing a compound that contains 171 captives, at a cost of $800,000 a year per detainee.
—Carol Rosenberg, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2011
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Abend says many attendees have been people who visited concentration camps or have connections to people who were prisoners in those camps.Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
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On the hills above Goethe’s Weimer sits the Buchenwald concentration camp; in Erfurt, Topf & Sons manufactured ovens and gas-chamber-ventilation systems for the death camps.Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
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Washington — In December 2022, Paul Whelan was sitting in a factory at a Russian labor camp in Mordovia, more than seven hours east of Moscow, adding buttons and buttonholes to winter coats.Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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These problems, Herman noted, occurred when one person was under the control of another, such as in the context of prisons or labor camps or in certain families.Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
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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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He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 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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Most of the witnesses also recounted that Neely indicated a willingness to go to jail or prison.Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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That’s enough for Los Angeles professionals like My Lovely Attorney to complete a day’s driving to and from Downtown LA without need to call the gas engine from the bullpen.Mark Ewing, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Bumgarner comes out of the bullpen to pitch five scoreless innings on two days’ rest as the Giants held off the Kansas City Royals 3-2. 2017 — Justin Rose mounts the third-largest final-round comeback in PGA TOUR history to win the WGC-HSBC Champions.Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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