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Recent Examples of work camp
Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Jan. 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
The officials are using the existing minimum security prison work camp in McCook, located around 210 miles west of Lincoln.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 20 Aug. 2025
What's Next Corrections Director Rob Jeffreys said the 186 inmates now at the McCook work camp will be moved to other state prisons within 45 to 60 days.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Jan. 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
The officials are using the existing minimum security prison work camp in McCook, located around 210 miles west of Lincoln.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 20 Aug. 2025
What's Next Corrections Director Rob Jeffreys said the 186 inmates now at the McCook work camp will be moved to other state prisons within 45 to 60 days.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
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His past films have covered the Hungarian Uprising, the fraught lead-up to WWI and, in 2015’s excruciating Son of Saul, life and death in a Nazi concentration camp.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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Most have buried their concentration camp stories in attics and basements and trash cans and boxes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.—
Nick Tabor,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
29 Apr. 2026
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The labor camp, already on the National Register of Historic Places, was run by Tom Collins, to whom Steinbeck dedicated his 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Grapes of Wrath.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Burke checked himself into a low-security federal prison camp in Thomson, Illinois, in September 2024, to start a two-year sentence on his corruption case.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
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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
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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