labour camp

British  

noun

1. a penal colony involving forced labour

2. a camp for migratory labourers

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Example Sentences

In the past, minors who broke the law in this way would be sent to youth labour camps rather than put behind bars, and the punishment was usually less than five years.

From BBC

Desperate to divorce a woman he no longer loved and marry another - the friend was told by officials that the only way he could get a divorce was to spend time in a labour camp.

From BBC

He was born in Beijing in 1957, and grew up in labour camps in the north-west of China after his father, Ai Qing, an anti-establishment poet, was exiled.

From BBC

Vatican archivist Giovanni Coco told the Corriere that the importance of the letter was "enormous, a unique case" because it showed the Vatican had information that labour camps were actually death factories.

From Reuters

Part of his captivity was spent in a labour camp for foreigners in which he was the only inmate.

From BBC