Prison Camp Definition

noun
A camp for detaining and confining prisoners of war.
American Heritage
A camp for confining prisoners of war or political prisoners.
Webster's New World
A camp with minimum security for holding prisoners who are put to work, often outdoors.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
prison camp
Plural:
prison camps

Prison Camp Sentence Examples

  • The state supervisors must inspect each state prison camp and each county prison camp every thirty days.

  • Under the supervision of a board of prison commissioners, which appoints the superintendent and warden of each, are a reformatory prison for women at Sherborn (1877), a state reformatory for men at Concord (1884), a state prison at Boston (Charlestown), and a prison camp and hospital at Rutland (1905).

  • In September 1864 he became colonel of the 127th United States Colored Infantry; in 1864-1865 was in command of the prison camp at Elmira, New York, and in March 1865 was breveted brigadier-general of volunteers.

  • He moved to England as a young man and was interred in a prison camp there during World War I.

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