Sentence examples for penal camp from inspiring English sources

Everyone knew the sentence for crimes against the state: seven years in a penal camp and five years in exile.

"The Tormentors," a novel published in 1950, was one of the first accounts of life in a Soviet penal camp.

Obsessed with saving Katerina and redeeming himself, the prince trails her to a penal camp in Siberia.

When we were in Gusen penal camp, my father, who was 50, one day just gave up and said he couldn't continue.

After scorning the scientific work of the colonel who headed the institute, Mr. Solzhenitsyn was banished to a desolate penal camp in Kazakhstan called Ekibastuz.

MOSCOW, April 18 —Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the jailed Russian oil oligarch who was recently slashed in the face, has been put into solitary confinement in a Siberian penal camp, Russia's federal prison authorities announced on Tuesday.

Later, he referred to concentration camps as Nazi penal camps.

He is reported to have used "penal camps" to describe a concentration camp.

Anton Chekhov visited Czarist penal camps here in 1890 and pronounced the island "a hell".

A U.S.-based rights group also estimates tens of thousands of prisoners remain held in Soviet-style penal camps.

He actually said the Romany people in Austria were being marginalised, and asked people to remember that they were almost exterminated in the penal camps of National Socialism.