Japanese Internment Camps

Japanese Internment Camps What were they? Internment camps were permanent detention camps that held internees from March 1942 until their closing in 1945 and 1946. Although the camps held captive people of many different origins, the majority of the prisoners were Japanese-Americans. There were ten different relocation centres, which were scattered all over the interior West, in isolated desert areas of Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming. Why were they set up?? After the bombing of Pearl …

…developed to gain an apology and redress from the U.S. government. The Redress Movement succeeded in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (CLA) passed. The Act offered an official apology, funded education about the internment as a deterrent to future violations, and authorized a ten-year program of token $20,000 payments to most camp survivors. Not all those wronged received redress. After ten years, both the compensation and the education mandate of the CLA remain unfulfilled.