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honor camp

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noun

  1. a prison work camp operating on an honor system.

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Back at the honor camp, Angelo and Big John, whose visitors included Smith, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and former California Governor Pat Brown, were not exactly suffering.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sent to a minimum-security "honor camp" in Lompoc, Calif., a kind of penal country club for a handful of privileged convicts, the Alessios lost no time in buttering up the guards.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to one inmate: "The Chicken Delight truck used to pull up at the honor camp regularly."

From Time Magazine Archive

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