Prison-camp definition

A camp for detaining and confining prisoners of war.
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A camp detaining and confining political dissidents and other prisoners.
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A minimum security facility for the internment of prisoners.
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A camp with minimum security for holding prisoners who are put to work, often outdoors.
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A camp for confining prisoners of war or political prisoners.
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Other Word Forms

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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