Internment Centers

Return to Japanese Internment in WWII = Internment Centers = Run by the Department of Justice (DOJ)

Overview
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photo courtesy of bookmice.net

These camps were primarily used to contain the Issei who had been termed "enemy aliens". There is not a lot of information listed about these camps, even a complete list of the camps themselves and their internees available; but they were considered to be temporary and generally the inmates were sent to the relocation camps after awhile. In total there were eight camps run by the DOJ that held Japanese Americans.


 * Crystal City, Texas
 * Kenedy, Texas
 * Kooskia, Idaho
 * Fort Lincoln, North Dakota
 * Fort Missoula, Montana
 * Fort Stanton, New Mexico
 * Santa Fe, New Mexico
 * Segoville, Texas

The link here has pictures of letters written about the inspection of the camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The quality is a little fuzzy, but they're a very interesting read.

"National Park Service: Confinement and Ethnicity (Chapter 17)." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. .

"National Park Service: Confinement and Ethnicity (Chapter 17)." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. .