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work camp

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Definition of work camp

as in concentration camp

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Recent Examples of work camp An inmate serving a 10-year sentence for first-degree burglary walked away from a state prison work camp Monday night in El Dorado County, state officials said. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 24 Feb. 2026 And Nazi officials had promised Auschwitz’s Buna work camp thousands of skilled Jewish laborers – a quota that was not met because of the Rosenstrasse Jews’ release. — Danielle Wirsansky, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026 After the father, Nathan (Paul Winfield), is arrested for stealing ham and shipped off to an unknown work camp, eldest son David Lee (Kevin Hooks) takes a journey with the family dog, Sounder, to try and find him. — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Dec. 2025 Mike Braun opened the Speedway Slammer at an Indiana prison, Jim Pillen opened the Cornhusker Clink at a Nebraska work camp, and Jeff Landry opened the Louisiana Lockup in a disused wing of Angola penitentiary. — Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for work camp

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More than 250 were documented to have died in concentration camps.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2026
Other relatives were deported to the concentration camps Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 25 June 2026

Definition of concentration camp

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Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 May 2026
He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.

— Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of labor camp

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Unlike the public perception often created by movies and television, daily life at a federal prison camp revolves around work assignments, educational programming, treatment, and institutional responsibilities.

— Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Samuel Murphy is a war veteran who has been busted and sent to a notorious prison camp.

— Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 25 June 2026

Definition of prison camp

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