How to Use prison camp in a Sentence

prison camp

noun
  • The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Those children are not sent to prison camps to lie on concrete floors.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2018
  • Not after the jungle prison camps.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • He has been sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison camp.
    — Raga Justin, Dallas News, 29 June 2021
  • The white boys really turned the prison camp into a chain gang.
    — Winfred Rembert, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • Not just the prison camp, but the entire society is like that.
    — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • Then the Taft prison camp philosopher sidled up to him at the gym one day.
    — New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • She alone from her prison camp was selected as part of the same trade that freed her husband.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • 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
  • By the time the march ended some 70 miles later at a prison camp, thousands had died.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
  • By that time, the Reds had heard about the prison camp and mass grave at Kalevankangas.
    — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • While Meek remains locked up at a state prison Camp Hill, Penn.
    — Latifah Muhammad, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2017
  • There is a conveyor belt to transport the limestone rocks into the prison camp.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • There is a conveyor belt to transport the limestone rocks into the prison camp.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Within a month, Obata got permission to open an art school at the prison camp.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Just a week later, Maxwell was moved to a more permissive prison camp in Texas.
    — NBC news, 21 Dec. 2025
  • But some of the women who served time in Bryan remain skeptical that the prison camp has been transformed.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • In Germany, Catherine is stripped of her belongings and her hair cut to the scalp at the prison camp.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
  • She was recently transferred from a prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Some of these prison camps have been deep inside Syria, guarded by the SDF.
    — Fox News, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Samuel Murphy is a war veteran who has been busted and sent to a notorious prison camp.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 25 June 2026
  • Holmes arrived at the Texas women's prison camp on May 30 to begin her sentence.
    — Chuong Nguyen, Ars Technica, 12 July 2023
  • 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
  • Takei and his family were eventually moved to a prison camp in Arkansas.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025

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