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Recent Examples of prison camp
The former circus performer actually dreamed up the exercises that would become pilates while interned in a prison camp.
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Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
20 May 2026
In 2025, Maxwell, Epstein's associate, was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas.
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Maegan Vazquez The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
4 Apr. 2026
She was subsequently sentenced to prison for her role in a years-long telemarketing scheme that the government said defrauded innocent people across the country, and after serving two years and nine months at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, she was released in December 2025.
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Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
4 Apr. 2026
But some of the women who served time in Bryan remain skeptical that the prison camp has been transformed.
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Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2026
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Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
20 May 2026
In 2025, Maxwell, Epstein's associate, was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas.
—
Maegan Vazquez The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
4 Apr. 2026
She was subsequently sentenced to prison for her role in a years-long telemarketing scheme that the government said defrauded innocent people across the country, and after serving two years and nine months at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, she was released in December 2025.
—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
4 Apr. 2026
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
See All Example Sentences for prison camp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
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More than 250 were documented to have died in concentration camps.
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Other relatives were deported to the concentration camps Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
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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.
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He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
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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.
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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.
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The driver of the fleeing vehicle was booked into the Wyandotte County Detention Center, according to the jail’s inmate listing.
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Epstein served about 13 months in a Florida jail, and was often permitted to leave the jail on work release.
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With the bullpen overworked from a busy week — which featured a doubleheader Wednesday — manager Craig Counsell said Friday wasn’t the time to be aggressive.
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Opposing starters are going deep, and bullpens are staying well rested.
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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