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The Closure The Bureau of Prisons announced Thursday plans to close the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, and deactivate minimum-security prison camps in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
In addition to closing FCI Dublin, the Bureau of Prisons is shuttering its minimum-security prison camps in Pensacola, Fla.; Duluth, Minn.; and Morgantown, W.Va.
—Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
There are reports of other prison camps protesting in an effort to get clarity on FSA.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Watch: The truth about Stalin’s prison camps The most influential of Stalin memorials is being raised in the minds of the young.
—Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
In addition to closing FCI Dublin, the Bureau of Prisons is shuttering its minimum-security prison camps in Pensacola, Fla.; Duluth, Minn.; and Morgantown, W.Va.
—Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
There are reports of other prison camps protesting in an effort to get clarity on FSA.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Watch: The truth about Stalin’s prison camps The most influential of Stalin memorials is being raised in the minds of the young.
—Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
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Marcy Thompson: Not long after being transported to Theresienstadt, Margarethe was sent to Treblinka, a concentration camp.—
Marcy Thompson,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2025
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While some managed to flee, many were deported and killed in concentration camps.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
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In World War II, the invading Germans sent the owners to labor camps and incinerated the farmstead.—
Ellen Ruppel Shell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Nov. 2024
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On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Nov. 2024
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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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Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.—
Nicole Acevedo,
NBC News,
18 Nov. 2024
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When the pandemic came, the sisters were no longer allowed inside McHenry jail.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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Johnson was arrested on July 17 and bonded out of jail five days later, officials with the sheriff’s office said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 Jan. 2025
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The Red Sox will likely have competition for Scherzer's services from other MLB teams, most if whom will be expected to at least try him in the starting rotation, so Boston's chances of landing Scherzer as a bullpen piece may be a long shot.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025
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Another familiar name in last year’s bullpen, Bailey Horn, was designated for assignment earlier this offseason.—
Jen McCaffrey,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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