prison camp
拘留所,拘留营,囚禁营,监禁营
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- : a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- : a camp for less dangerous prisoners assigned to outdoor work, usually for the government.
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We learned nothing about the overwhelming cost of two wars, the loss of civil liberties… the systematic use of torture in prison camps.
No charges were ever brought, but she spent the next 15 months being ferried between five different prison camps with barbed wire and watchtowers, during which she was interrogated 19 times and tortured with electric batons.
In the South, women in prison camps undertook forced labor — building roads, tending crops — alongside their male counterparts.
It’s like a war prison camp with the barbed wires around it.
Millions of peasants who resisted the policy were sent to prison camps.
Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.
When Chérif got out of prison, he worked at the fish counter of a supermarket.
There was a lot of prison fiction from movies and books to mine.
Jettison your lawyers as a source of prison-yard guidance, Abramoff said.
You get these high-profile people that go into prison, and the staff abuse their authority.
So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
In the most perfect stillness, we arrived within two hundred paces of the enemy's camp.
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.