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Prison camp may refer to: Internment (concentration camp or internment camp) Federal prison camp, low-security facility among those on list of U.S. federal prisons;
Corporal King is an anomaly in the Japanese prison camp.One of only a handful of Americans amongst the British and Australian inmates, he thrives through his conniving and black market enterprises, while others, nearly all of higher rank, struggle to survive sickness and starvation while trying to retain their civilized standards.
Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers. From the start of the Civil War through to 1863 a parole exchange system saw most prisoners of war swapped relatively quickly.
The camp closed in 1954 but re-opened in the 1970s to jail African leaders fighting Portuguese colonialism. Spain maintained a penal colony on Fernando Po in present-day Equatorial Guinea. [ 26 ] The tiny island of Cabrera was also a short-lived penal colony in which approximately 7,000 French prisoners of war from the Battle of Bailén (1808 ...
Japanese POW cap, which was originally maroon, is the only known clothing relic from the Cowra POW camp The Japanese Garden in 2004 Harry Doncaster Memorial. In the first week of August 1944, a tip-off from an informer (recorded in some sources to be a Korean informant using the name Matsumoto) [3] at Cowra led authorities to plan to move all Japanese POWs at Cowra, except officers and NCOs ...
A corrective colony (Russian: исправительная колония, romanized: ispravitelnaya koloniya, abbr. ИК/IK) is the most common type of prison in Russia and some other post-Soviet states. [further explanation needed] Such colonies combine penal detention with compulsory work (penal labor).
View of a German prison camp, Stalag VIII-A, in Görlitz. Initially most French prisoners were detained in France, but after repeated escapes, the Germans decided to move the vast majority to new camps in Germany and Eastern Europe. [12] Conditions in camps varied considerably geographically and over time.
For lists of German prisoner-of-war camps, see: German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I; German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II