reeducation camp

Definitions

1. A camp or prison where ideological dissidents undergo reeducation or indoctrination.
   euphemistic
2. A camp where people are rehabilitated to health, especially after injury.
   dated

Equivalents

Examples

“Although the Socialist Republic of Vietnam now encourages Vietnamese refugees to visit⟳ their native land⟳, many refuse⟳ to do so, fearing that [...] they would be hustled off to reeducation camps to face⟳ starvation, over-work, and slow death.”

“By degrees the seriously wounded were concentrated in this hospital, which remained open⟳ till 1919, and the discharged drafted to a Belgian reeducation camp in France.”

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