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Recent Examples of prison camp
Migrants being held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are now being permitted to speak to their attorneys by phone, an official for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a court filing.
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Laura Romero, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Moving migrants in immigration detention awaiting deportation to an offshore prison camp raises novel legal questions.
—Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
There are signs that FSA is doing what Congress intended as prison camps have seen their populations decrease.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Laura Romero, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Moving migrants in immigration detention awaiting deportation to an offshore prison camp raises novel legal questions.
—Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
There are signs that FSA is doing what Congress intended as prison camps have seen their populations decrease.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
Noun
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The group was later found, and Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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And nearly half of Americans surveyed couldn't name a single German concentration camp or ghetto.—
Lee Cowan,
CBS News,
23 Feb. 2025
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His Polish father had fought for the Allied Armed Forces, while his Belarusian mother had survived a Nazi labor camp.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 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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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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Wedding served a four-year jail sentence after agreeing to forfeit more than $121,000 seized during an airport sting and agreeing to drop an appeal of his conviction.—
Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
8 Mar. 2025
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Both suspects were arrested and booked into main jail.—
Anne Gelhaus,
The Mercury News,
7 Mar. 2025
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After a disappointing 82-80 season last year, ending with a fourth-place finish in the American League Central, the Minnesota Twins enter this season with high expectations, thanks to the development of their young players and a bullpen described by some MLB experts as the best in baseball.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
16 Mar. 2025
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Now healthy, Merryweather has a chance to be a big piece of the Cubs bullpen.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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