prison camp

American  

noun

1. a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.

2. a camp for less dangerous prisoners assigned to outdoor work, usually for the government.

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Etymology

Origin of prison camp

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

She began serving her term in May 2023, at a women’s prison camp outside Houston.

From Los Angeles Times

His father fought in World War II and spent more than three years in a Japanese prison camp, after which he returned to Malaya and later settled in the south of England.

From The Wall Street Journal

Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia, his parents fled from imminent Nazi occupation when he was still a baby and went to Singapore, where his father died in a Japanese prison camp.

From BBC

A week after her interview with Blanche, Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security prison camp in Bryan, Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal

In July, after Maxwell was interviewed about Epstein by the Justice Department’s Blanche, inmates in the Bryan prison camp’s Madison unit were told to do a deep cleaning of the whole dormitory.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• concentration camp
• gulag
• internment camp